| ID | 135770 |
| Title Proper | Nationalising civilisational resources |
| Other Title Information | sacred mountains and cosmopolitical ritual in Mongolia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sneath, David |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper is concerned with the historical process by which elements drawn from a religious ‘civilisation’ have been reinvented as specifically national phenomena. It examines the Mongolian state ceremonies for sacred mountains conducted by the President as an example of the reinvention of an institution originally produced by the wider culture or civilisation of the Buddhist ecumene encompassing both Mongolia and Tibet. Such ritual, I argue, can be thought of as ‘cosmopolitical’ in that sense that they engaged with non-humans as actors in the political arena. Furthermore, the contemporary reinvention of these practices has generated a space for a very different, but also cosmopolitical, register for conceiving of relations between human persons and the landscape. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Ethnicity Vol.15, No.4; Sep.2014: p.458-472 |
| Journal Source | Asian Ethinicity Vol: 15 No 4 |
| Standard Number | State |