Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword xvii
7. Preface and Acknowledgments: “-Scaping” Mongolia xix
8. Theorizing Mongolia’s Connections
9. 1. General Comments on Mapping Mongolia and Mongol Studies 3
10. 2. “-Scaping” Mongolia 16
11. 3. Mapping and the Headless State: Rethinking National Populist Concepts of Mongolia 34
12. 4. Is There Such a Thing as Central/Inner (Eur)Asia and Is Mongolia a Part of It? 60
13. Extending Beyond Current Borders
14. 5. The Geology, Climate, and Ecology of Mongolia 87
15. 6. Nomadic Pastoralism in Mongolia and Beyond 104
16. 7. The Prehistory of Mongolian Populations as Revealed by Studies of Osteological, Dental, and Genetic Variation 125
17. 8. Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and Beyond: Interpreting the Ideoscape of the Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex 166
18. Connecting to Other Polities
19. 9. Timescapes from the Past: An Archaeogeography of Mongolia 195
20. 10. Steppe Nomads as a Philosophical Problem in Classical China 220
21. 11. Mapping Foreign Policy Interests: Mongolia’s Case 247
22. Index 263