Russian Policy towards Northeast Asia: The Mongolia Factor

Abstract

Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 34-48

Songs, Settings, Sociality: Human and Ecological Well-Being in Western Mongolia

“…My research on both instrumental and vocal forms over the years has focused on sense of place (Post 2007), mobility (Post 2014), ecological knowledge (Post 2017), song mapping (Post 2019b), sounds and soundscapes (Guyette and Post 2015;Post and Pijanowski 2018), and climate change (Post 2019a). To date, few scholars have conducted research on musical practices in Bayan-Ölgii (Pegg 2001;Soni 2015). Some of the data on ethnobiological content in songs were first gathered during my travel with Beket Uluqpan, a Kazakh Mongolian biologist and my travel guide for three spring/summer seasons from 2006-2008.…”

“…Qing dynasty unrest in the region led to their movement north into Mongolia over the Altai Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century (Atwood 2004;Olcott 1995). A much smaller group of Kazakhs arrived from Russian Altai and Eastern Kazakhstan at the time of the October revolution and civil war between 1917 and the 1920s (Soni 2015). In 1940, the Mongolian government established Bayan-Ölgii district (aimag) as a separate administrative unit for the Kazakhs (Olcott 1995;Rossabi 1975).…”