Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

by Morten Axel Pedersen, Lars Højer, Lars Hojer

An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system

Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos characterized by wild inflation, disappearing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300196113
• ISBN13: 9780300196115
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"