Members of the Emerging Subjects project at UCL and the National University of Mongolia contributed to this post. What does focusing on gifts given and received during the Lunar New Year tell us about the general economy in Mongolia? Last year we posted our first Lunar New Year Gift Index (LNYGI) and foundContinue Reading
Lauren Bonilla, Rebekah Plueckhahn, Rebecca Empson, Department of Anthropology, University College London This post is written by researchers on an ERC-funded project entitled ‘Emerging Subjects of the New Economy: Tracing Economic Growth in Mongolia’ based at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Our project focuses on the mineral-rich country of Mongolia, onceContinue Reading
Empson, Rebecca, 2011. Harnessing Fortune: Personhood, Memory and Place in Mongolia. Oxford University Press. Daniel Miller, UCL One of the issues in teaching material culture studies under the auspices of an anthropology department is explaining what is, at least in my case, a very conservative attitude to ethnography. I haveContinue Reading