The Horse-Head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia (English, Peter K. Marsh)

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Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural t…

ISBN: 9780415971560