Table des matières
Grégory Delaplace
1. A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders- Doors and the (unsuspected) relations between office colleagues, cats, and gulls
- North Asian borders: where empires meet
- How (slightly) different a border is from a door: overview of the volume’s content
- The fuzzy materiality of the border
- Material and immaterial components in border assemblages
- Borders and regimes of openness
- Subverting the border
Uradyn E.Bulag
3. Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade- Prologue: stony wars at the foot of the willow palisade
- Rethinking imperial and national borders
- Inter-Mongolian borders
- Breaking down provincial borders
- Inter-ethnic border or international border?
- Gehe: inter-ethnic psychological barrier
- Concluding remarks: toward a triangular conceptualisation of border
Caroline Humphrey
4. Concepts of “Russia” and their Relation to the Border with ChinaNatalia Ryzhova
6. The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of IllegalitySayana Namsaraeva
8. Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of HomeValentin Batomunkuev
Appendix 1: Border-Crossing Infrastructure: The Case of the Russian Mongolian Border