"We have characterized the settlement of this remnant group of Kalmyk Mongols in the United States as climaxing an odyssey which had its beginnings in Central Asia."
(From Chapter 1: Historical Background)
In The Kalmyk Mongols: A Study in Continuity and Change, author Paula G. Rubel examines the cultural continuity and adaptation of a western Mongol people whose twentieth-century migrations carried them from the Soviet Union through displacement and eventual resettlement abroad. Drawing on ethnographic research, she considers kinship, social organization, religion, custom, and collective identity within a radically different social world.
- Publisher: Indiana University Publications
- Volume 64 of the Uralic & Altaic Series
- Year: 1967 (first edition)
- ISBN: none
- Pages: 282
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Format: softcover, black and red paper wrappers
Condition: Spine creases and stress lines. A two-inch tear along the front joint. Sunning on the spine. Binding intact and strong. Some shelf wear, one slightly bent corner. An area of shallow abrasion on the back cover. Five folding charts and diagrams have been bound in. Pages clean, unmarked and likely unread.
An inscription by the author on the half-title ("To Chuck & Cherry, with affection, Paula",) indicates that this copy comes from the personal library of anthropologist Charles Lindholm (1946-2023).