• Inner Mongolia

    Cultures of Belief — post-print version of article

    by  • 10 April, 2013 • anthropology, belief, Inner Mongolia, religion • 0 Comments

    As promised, here’s a post-print version of my Cultures of Belief article, which was published in Anthropological Theory. cultures-of-belief-post-print The text is identical to the journal version, but the formatting is different — this is the version I’m allowed to distribute according to the publishing agreement. If you have access to the journal, for...

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    Cross-cultural conversations at cross-purposes

    by  • 5 December, 2012 • anthropology, anthropology of ethics, Buddhism, China, conversations at cross-purposes, Inner Mongolia, Mongolian Buddhism, religion • 1 Comment

    Part of my argument in the recent neoliberalism debate was that, evidence of discontent about any aspect, be it ever so narrow, of what have been identified as neoliberal transformations is taken, without further justification, as a rejection of all of the phenomena that have been so identified My point was that just because lots of...

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    People’s Daily Online: Tibetan Buddhist temples in China’s Inner Mongolia

    by  • 1 May, 2012 • Buddhism, Inner Mongolia, Mongolian Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism • 0 Comments

    The People’s Daily Online has published a small gallery of Tibetan Buddhism temples in China’s Inner Mongolia. Photos 4 and 5 are of Baruun Hiid in Alashaa League in the far west of Inner Mongolia. 6 and 7 show Badgar Hiid, near Baotou, somewhere I have spent quite a bit of fieldwork time.

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