Cattle sheds.
subject: pastoralism
Vegetable plots at Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
A freshwater spring at the spring pastures, with herders using the water.
A scene at the Handgate centre
New born lambs and hay, at the spring pasture
Showing Buddhist scriptures inside the temple. Photo of Mt. Kailash in background.
subject: Buddhism
Dr. Marsel showing his ‘secret book’ about Uriyanghai Mongolian mecilicine
subject: medicine
A scene at the centre of Handgate
Doctors and nurses of Handgate hospital
Seeing a doctor, Handgate hospital, Altai
A silent documentary made in 1928 of Swedish explore Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
subject: Gobi, ethnographic film, expeditions, explorers
Grigory Potanin was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian, whose work concerned Mongolian and Uighur language and culture.
subject: expeditions
A popular narrative of the second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1918-1919.
Map showing the expedition routes of NK Roerich, from the Roerich Museum.
subject: expeditions, maps
Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850
A map showing the route of Frank E Younghusband on his trip from Beijing to Kashmir.
Map showing China, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and the Gobi region
subject: Gobi, maps
A fascinating 1747 European mapping of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin.
subject: Gobi, maps, silk route
subject: Inner Asia, ethnicity, language revitalization
The Chinese regime, which has granted unified autonomy to the Mongols, has also instituted various mechanisms to undermine the Mongols as a viable community.
subject: Inner Asia
Doctoral dissertation on Deed Mongols and respect for the State.
subject: Deed Mongols, anthropology of the state
This chapter first examines the transformation of Ereen from 2007 to 2010.
subject: Prostitution, Border cities, Urbanization