Contents
Preface to New Edition
Maps and Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Buryats and Their Surroundings
2. Ideology and Instructions for Collective Farms
3. The Hierarchy of Rights Held in Practice
4. The Collective Farm Economy
5. The Division of Labour
6. Domestic Production and Changes in the Soviet Buryat Family
7. Politics in the Collective Farm
8. Ritual and Identity
Conclusion
Update
9. The Collective Farms after Socialism (1996)
10. Rural Culture and Visions of the Future
Notes
Glossary
References
Index