Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties. It is at this intersection, where the politics of tending to the past and the morality of new means of accumulating wealth come together to shape intimate social relations that the book reveals an innovative area for the study of kinship in anthropology. Combining personal experience with ethnographic insight, the volume will be essential reading for social anthropologists and those with a general interest in East Asia and post-socialist countries.
| ISBN: | 9780197264737 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2011 |
| Author: | Rebecca Empson, British Academy |
| Publisher: | The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 408 pages |
| Series: | A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph |
| Genres: |
Asian history Social and cultural anthropology |
Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties. It is at this intersection, where the politics of tending to the past and the morality of new means of accumulating wealth come together to shape intimate social relations that the book reveals an innovative area for the study of kinship in anthropology. Combining personal experience with ethnographic insight, the volume will be essential reading for social anthropologists and those with a general interest in East Asia and post-socialist countries.
Harnessing Fortune features in the following genres: Asian history, Social and cultural anthropology
Harnessing Fortune is available in Hardback
Harnessing Fortune was written by Rebecca Empson, British Academy and published by The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press
Harnessing Fortune has 408 pages
Yes it is part of A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph series