Figures ..................................................... ix
Tables .................................................... xiii
Contributors ............................................... xiv
Foreword .................................................... xv
Preface and Acknowledgments: "Scaping" Mongolia ........... xvii
Theorizing Mongolia's Connections
1 General Comments on Mapping Mongolia and Mongol Studies ...... 3
G. Cameron Hurst
2 "Scaping" Mongolia .......................................... 16
Paula L.W. Sabloff
3 Mapping and the Headless State: Rethinking National
Populist Concepts of Mongolia ............................... 34
David Sneath
4 Is There Such a Thing as Central/Inner (Eur)Asia and Is
Mongolia a Part of It? ...................................... 60
Christopher P. Atwood
Extending Beyond Current Borders
5 The Geology, Climate, and Ecology of Mongolia ............... 87
Clyde E. Goulden, B. Nandintsetseg, and L. Ariuntsetseg
6 Nomadic Pastoralism in Mongolia and Beyond ................. 104
Thomas Barfield
7 The Prehistory of Mongolian Populations as Revealed by
Studies of Osteological, Dental, and Genetic Variation ..... 125
Theodore Schurr and Lenore Pipes
8 Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and
Beyond: Unraveling the Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Enigma ........ 166
William W. Fitzhugh andjamsranjav Bayarsaikhan
Connecting to Other Polities
9 Timescapes from the Past: An Archaeogeography of Mongolia .. 195
William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin
10 Steppe Nomads as a Philosophical Problem in Classical
China ...................................................... 220
Paul R. Goldin
11 Mapping Foreign Policy Interests: Mongolia's Case .......... 247
Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan
Index ...................................................... 263
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