Fear and Fortune

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Mette M. High

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Mette M. High is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Saint Andrews.

Résumé
Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early...

Contenu

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Note on Transliteration and Translationxv

Introduction: Land of Fortune1
1 Burden of Patriarchy25
2 Power of Gold43
3 Angered Spirits59
4 PollutedMoney77
5 Wealth and Devotion93
6 Trading Gold111
Notes131
Glossary139
References141
Index157