Beyond great walls : environment, identity, and development on the Chinese grasslands of Inner Mongolia / Dee Mack Williams.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2002.Description: xii, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0804742782 (alk. paper)
- 9780804742788 (alk. paper)
- Human ecology -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Ethnicity -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Grassland ecology -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Pastoral systems -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Land degradation -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Environmental degradation -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Inner Mongolia (China) -- Environmental conditions
- Inner Mongolia (China) -- Social conditions
- Etnicidad -- China -- Mongolia Interior
- Sistemas de pastoreo -- China -- Mongolia Interior
- Mongolia Interior (China) -- Condiciones ambientales
- Mongolia Interior (China) -- Condiciones sociales
- 333.74/0951/77 21
- GF657.C6 W55 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.
"This is an ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been under-going dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It provides a rare window of observation into a fascinating and important, though remote and relatively understudied, region of modern China, and documents some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development." "Initially, the book presents a case study of land degradation and shows how competing social and cultural forces at the local, national, and international level actively shape that process. More broadly, it focuses on local experiences of modernization and the ways that marginalized people creatively appropriate alien technologies to serve their own ethnic identity and cultural renewal." "The book aims to deepen our understanding of environmental change as a social process by exploring significant tensions between such symbolic dichotomies as Chinese/Mongol, farmer/herder, private/Western/Asian, and scientific/indigenous. It argues that the reconstruction of local landscape cannot be separated from the social context of economic insecurity and political fear, nor from the cultural context of group identity and environmental symbolism. Ideologically informed perceptions of the land prove to be highly relevant in both shaping and contesting international development agendas, national grassland policies, and the daily practices of local production." "In presenting the full range of material and symbolic stakes now in play on the Chinese grasslands, the book demonstrates that human-land interactions involve social dimensions on a global scale of widely underestimated complexity. Throughout, the author draws from his extensive fieldwork to enrich his study with poignant (and sometimes humorous) anecdotes and biographical sketches."--BOOK JACKET.
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