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The lama question : violence, sovereignty, and exception in early socialist Mongolia /

Before becoming the second socialist country in the world in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist feudal theocracy. Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people was one of the most important challenges faced by the new socialist go...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplonski, C. (Christopher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Technologies of exception, governmentality, and the contingent state
  • The geopolitics of exception
  • Women, literacy, and other dangerous things
  • Counting (on) the living gods
  • Samdan, the special commission, and the rule of law
  • Rebellions, war, and aftermaths
  • Surveillance and control: the religious administration and the government representatives
  • A tale of two lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
  • The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
  • Closed and destroyed monasteries: the aftermath.