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The Mongols Name: Mongols, Mongolians, Tartars Population: 207,000 Localization: The Mongols have an independent country, Mongolia, but most of them live in China, where they are a minority. They live mainly in: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and some prefectures of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. In Russia, in the Buryat Republic. |
The Mongolian people living in Xinjiang were formerly known as Oirat or Ojila. Their population is near 170.000 people. They are divided in three main tribes: The Zhungar tribe has been living in Xinjiang many centuries, the Turgut, that come back from the Volga River at the end of 18th century, and the Chahar tribe who moved from Inner Mongolia and Hebei province.
Introductory
Articles in Ethnic China
Scholars Researches available in the Web
Yang Enhong.- A Comparative Study of the Singing Styles of Mongolian and Tibetan Geser/Gesar Artists. Oral Tradition, 13/2 (1998)
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks to its continuous singing by generations of local artists. Because artists have brought their individual cultural contexts into it, the epic exhibits distinctive ethnic qualities in different places.
Fedotoff, Alexander.- Motif of Miraculous Birth in Mongolian and Korean Myths and epic.
The subject of this paper are the changes in property rights systems in livestock and pastures in Western Mongolia in the post-socialist period. The aim is not to point at the contradiction of private herd ownership and communal grazing, or the superiority of private property rights.
Walther
Eissig.- New
Material on East Mongolian Shamanism
In the past fifty years some interest has been manifested
in the existence of a branch of East Mongolian shamanism. This is the
shamanism of the Mongol population north and east of the Hsingan mountain
range up to the Yablonoj Mountains.
Kortlandt, Frederik.- Are
Mongolian and Tungus genetically related?
Rinchindorji.-
Mongolian-Turkic
Epics: Typological Formation and Development. The academic
community has long noticed the resemblance between Mongolian and Turkic
epics. Some believe that the Mongols and the Turkic people share a narrative
tradition that accounts for their commonalities.
Schmieder, Felicitas.- The
Mongols as non-believing apocalyptic friends around the year 1260
Jim
Taylor.- GRASSLAND
POLICY, PRIVATISATION AND NEW ECOLOGY IN
INNER MONGOLIA. This paper argues that the recent policy
trend toward grassland ‘privatisation’ and the household enclosure
movement are generating conditions for greater inequalities and the decline
of natural resources.
Books and references
Free excerpts of books about the Mongols
Allsen, Thomas.- Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia.
Count of Lesdain.- The Mongol of Ordos in 1908 (From Pekin to Sikkin)
Free books about the Mongols
Abbott,
Jacob.- Genghis
Khan
Basic
Bibliography of the Mongols
Photo Exhibitions
Ethnic
China photo exhibitions
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Music
Mongols
music
A guide to download their music
Films and Video
Documentary
Films about the Mongols
Available dvds and vcds about the Mongols
Image of the the Mongols in the cinema
Art and Handicrafts
The
Mongols in the art
Art Exhibitions
Travel
Travel
to Mongols lands
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