Map of Evariste Huc’s travels
Dufour, H

Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850

subject: expeditions, maps

Le corps mongol: Techniques et conceptions nomades du corps [The Mongolian body: Nomadic techniques and concepts of the body]
Lacaze, Gaëlle

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.

subject: Techniques of the body, Life cycle, Visual anthropology

Mon pays natal, ma terre ancestrale
Lacaze, Gaëlle

Les Kazakhs de Bayan-Ölgiy, province occidentale de la Mongolie, s’inscrivent depuis 20 ans dans divers mouvements en direction du Kazakhstan.

subject: Migration, Identity, Ethnicity, Kazakhs in Mongolia, Oralman

L’orientation dans les techniques du corps chez les Mongols [Orientation refering to the techniques of the body]
Lacaze, Gaëlle

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.

subject: techniques of the body, space, movement

La notion de « technique du corps » appliquée à l’étude des Mongols [The concept of "techniques of the body" applied to the study of the Mongols]
Lacaze, Gaëlle

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.

subject: Techniques of the body, Marcel Mauss

Mongolia image database by Gaëlle Lacaze
Lacaze, Gaëlle

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.

subject: Techniques of the body, Life cycle, Visual anthropology