Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Situating Hybridity; 2. The Creation of Ethnicity and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Mongolia; 3. Ethno-politics in Mongolia; 4. Problems of Biological Reproduction and the Mongolian Crisis of Confidence; 5. The Discourse of Race in Mongolia; 6. Inner Mongols as 'Other' to Mongols; 7. The Choice of National Symbols: Reinitiating a Nation-State; 8. Conclusion: Nationalism and Hybridity; Bibliography; Index

Reviews

"This book encompasses at once a history of the emergence of a Mongolian nation and its ongoing struggles over positioning during the postsocialist transition. Based on fieldwork in the capital of Mongolia--Ulann Baatar--and other sites, Bulag recounts the complex history of the Soviet making of a unitary nationality out of a complex landscape of nearly twenty Mongol ethnic groups. . . .Informed equally strongly by British social anthropology and by postcolonial theory, writing here as an expert historian and analyst and there as a passionate Mongol, Bulag's is a masterful rendering of the cultural politics that demarcate the figure of the Mongolian." --Louisa Schein in American Anthropologist"This is an excellent study of the Mongol struggle to reestablish their identity."--Choice