Introduction to Mongolian Studies: Books

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Mongolian vocabulary and phrases are given in both the Roman alphabet and the Mongolian Cyrillic script, enabling the user to pronounce words easily while becoming familiar with the script. Featuring: * 3,500 total entries * Basic Mongolian grammar * Travel-oriented phrases * Commonsense pronunciation * Interesting and helpful cultural information

For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of the Mongolic language family is also a prerequisite for the study of Mongolian and Central Eurasian history and culture.

The fascinating story of the visualized languages, alphabets, and other writing systems, hand-written and block-printed books of the Mongols, Kalmyks, Buryats, and other Mongolian nations is outlined in this study by one of the world's preeminent scholars of the region.

The first Western scholars to be given permission to conduct fieldwork in Mongolia, Melvyn Goldstein and Cynthia Beall lived among a community of herders to study how they were adapting to Mongolia's transition to democracy and a market economy.

Monograph series of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. Prelude to the Mongolian Empire period; The Mongolian Empire period; The Manch-Chʻing period; The modern period; Folklore and shamanism

The conventional view of Genghis Khan as a ruthless leader who destroyed societies is turned on its head in this New York Times bestseller.

Following the collapse of nearly seventy years of Communist rule, writer and traveler Tim Severin went to Mongolia "to see how much of the traditional way of life survived."

The first book written about Mongolian and Siberian shamanism by a shaman trained in that tradition.

This multi-volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia, published in English, is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the cultures that flourished and vanished at the heart of the Eurasian continent from the dawn of civilization to the present day.

Compiled by Mend-Ooyo Gombojav and translated by Simon Wickham-Smith with Tsog Shagdarsüren.

This book includes 25 traditional Mongolian folktales. The most ancient date back to the 12th century and are concerned with human relations with the natural world. Others use the whimsicality of animals to describe people's struggles to find a good and decent life. Still others frankly applaud cunning, with, and the ability to survive an unfriendly competition.

This introduction to Mongolian literature, both oral and written, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, provides a rare insight into the changing worldviews-from clan society to Soviet culture-of the Mongolian people. Translated by renown scholar Charles Bawden, the work is organized into Histories, Legends, Didactic literature, Epics, Shamanistic Incantations, Folk-tales, Myths, Sino-Mongolian Prose Literature, Lyrics and Other Verse, and Reminiscences, concluding with a modern short story.

The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols, covering the great Činggis Qan's (1162-1227) ancestry and life, a literary monument of first magnitude. Written partly in prose and partly in epic poetry, this true handbook contains an historical introduction, a full translation of the chronicle in accessible English, plus an extensive commentary.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary snapshots of Mongolian life throughout this tumult. Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices and their vivid portraits of nomads, revolution, and the endless steppe.