My Mongolian World - Onon, Urgunge
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Urgunge Onon's reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. He offers a wide spectrum of experiences from a disappearing world, including everyday family life, shamanist customs, the role of the bonesetter, wolf hunting, falconry, folklore, legends of the past.

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Urgunge Onon's reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. He offers a wide spectrum of experiences from a disappearing world, including everyday family life, shamanist customs, the role of the bonesetter, wolf hunting, falconry, folklore, legends of the past.
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Urgunge Onon has published widely on Mongol life, including his translation of the thirteenth-century epic The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan (2001). In 1985 he retired from the University of Leeds where he had headed the Mongolian Studies Programme for many years, and became a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and General Manager of the university's newly-formed Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU). In 1992, in recognition of his distinguished academic career, he was awarded the rare distinction of an Honorary Professorship by the Mongolian State University.