Living Heritage in a Changing World
The Dynamics of Nomadic Culture in China
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032874302
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 Illustrations, black & white; 52 Halftones, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 773
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Short description:
This book explores living heritage through nomadic heritage in Inner Mongolia, China. Using a critical heritage approach, it examines how heritage is understood and enacted within changing communities and shifting lifestyles, revealing the dynamic nature of nomadic cultural heritage.
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This book explores living heritage through nomadic heritage in Inner Mongolia, China. Using a critical heritage approach, it examines how heritage is understood and enacted within changing communities and shifting lifestyles, revealing the dynamic nature of nomadic cultural heritage.
This book critically re-examines nomadic heritage, capturing socio-cultural transformations and engaging in an ontological inquiry into living heritage. By bridging theory and practice, as well as tangible and intangible heritage, it redefines heritage’s intrinsic logic in a changing world. Focusing on the ger, a dwelling central to Mongolian nomadic life, it analyses the continuity and transformation of ger practices. Using ethnographic research, it highlights the human-material-environment dynamic and the agency of multiple stakeholders in shaping heritage.
This work is a key contribution to living heritage and nomadic heritage studies, offering valuable insights for scholars, professionals and those interested in nomadic culture.
“An interesting book that vividly portrays the people and lives of contemporary nomadic society. Grounded in rich fieldwork and coherent theory, it bridges critical heritage studies with community practice and policy debate. The book reveals how continuity and change are negotiated in rapidly modernising contexts. I recommend it to heritage scholars and practitioners worldwide.”
- Dr Yan Haiming, Director of ICOMOS China/Researcher at China Academy of Cultural Heritage
“Comprehensive, up-to-date and copiously illustrated, this is an outstanding study of the changing forms and functions of the Mongolian felt tent. Together with a penetrating analysis of ‘living heritage’ in China, a must-read for anyone interested in the region.”
-Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey DBE FBA, Sigrid Rausing Professor Emerita of Collaborative Anthropology and Founding Director, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU), University of Cambridge
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Living Heritage Debates; 2. Contexts of Post-Nomadism and Ger Study; 3. Heritagisation of Ger: The Senses of New and Old; 4. Shifts through Contextual Flows; 5. Ger Industry: Inheritance and Marketising the Past; 6. The Last-Surviving Nomadic Site: Maintaining Cultural Landscape; 7. Heritage in Post-Nomadism; 8. Changing Communities and The Integrated Living Heritage Approach; Conclusion
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