Manduhai Buyandelger
Biographic Data
| ID | 95262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manduhai Buyandelger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manduhai |
| FAMILY NAME | Buyandelger |
| SIGNATURE | BUYANDELGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Economic volatilities, gold mining, and subjective transformations in Mongolia
Asocial memories, 'poisonous knowledge', and haunting in Mongolia
This article argues that memories that come from contexts that are adversarial, and that are not always based on communication and sociality, should be better integrated within the existing theories of social memory. Shamans in postsocialist Mongolia claim that previously suppressed origin spirits demand that their descendants become initiated as shamans in exchange for ceasing to harass them for forgetting and abandonment. Some clients refuse to…
Mongolia's Self-Styled Female Parliamentary Candidates
Anthropology in and of Moocs
The suddenness with which Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, sprang upon us left many within the academy grasping for interpretations. Early proponents touted them as revolutionary tools that could enhance on-campus learning while also making high-quality education accessible to a vast global population, reforming a malfunctioning university system, and producing new kinds of data on how people learn. Critics countered that behind this latest…
Tragic Spirits
Not Quite Shamans
Anthropology in and of Moocs
The suddenness with which Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, sprang upon us left many within the academy grasping for interpretations. Early proponents touted them as revolutionary tools that could enhance on-campus learning while also making high-quality education accessible to a vast global population, reforming a malfunctioning university system, and producing new kinds of data on how people learn. Critics countered that behind this latest…
Asocial memories, 'poisonous knowledge', and haunting in Mongolia
This article argues that memories that come from contexts that are adversarial, and that are not always based on communication and sociality, should be better integrated within the existing theories of social memory. Shamans in postsocialist Mongolia claim that previously suppressed origin spirits demand that their descendants become initiated as shamans in exchange for ceasing to harass them for forgetting and abandonment. Some clients refuse to…
Not Quite Shamans
Tragic Spirits
Not Quite Shamans
Anthropology in and of Moocs
The suddenness with which Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, sprang upon us left many within the academy grasping for interpretations. Early proponents touted them as revolutionary tools that could enhance on-campus learning while also making high-quality education accessible to a vast global population, reforming a malfunctioning university system, and producing new kinds of data on how people learn. Critics countered that behind this latest…
Mongolia's Self-Styled Female Parliamentary Candidates
Asocial memories, 'poisonous knowledge', and haunting in Mongolia
This article argues that memories that come from contexts that are adversarial, and that are not always based on communication and sociality, should be better integrated within the existing theories of social memory. Shamans in postsocialist Mongolia claim that previously suppressed origin spirits demand that their descendants become initiated as shamans in exchange for ceasing to harass them for forgetting and abandonment. Some clients refuse to…
Economic volatilities, gold mining, and subjective transformations in Mongolia
History (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works)