Book by Gaëlle Lacaze, concerning “techniques of the body” among nomadic pastoralists in Mongolia, Siberia, and Inner Mongolia. The book is accompanied by an online database of images.
The Mongol yurt forms a circular area with the fireplace in the centre. Without wall, it opens on the outside through a door and a round skylight that a chimney goes across.
The application of Marcel Mauss’s notion of “techniques of the body” to the study of the peoples of Mongolia shows how this notion must be adapted to suit each society.
L’iconographie photographique proposée concernant les techniques du corps mongoles résulte d’une démarche interactive, d’une « ethnologie partagée » pour reprendre l’expression chère à Jean Rouch.