Book
The land of the camel: tents and temples of Inner Mongolia
The Ronald Press Company • New York • Published In 1951 • Pages:
By: Cammann, Schuyler V. R. (Schuyler Van Rensselaer).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of three months' travel in 1945 through western Inner Mongolia where the author was sent on a military mission. The book contains descriptions of the Mongols and of the Chinese settlers in the area, as well as discussions of its political and military organizations. The author also recounts his visits to monasteries and temples giving information on the structures and their furnishings, and on the Buddhism of Inner Mongolia.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Highways and bridges
- Ethnic stratification
- Visiting and hospitality
- Prophets and ascetics
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inner Mongolia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ada Farber ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1945
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Schuyler Cammann
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51000485
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongolia/China--Inner Mongolia--Description and travel