Khangai Herds subject index
Khangai Herds 9- The Naadam
Fijn, Natasha
This ninth segment of Khangai Herds features an important event on any Mongolian herder’s calendar: the Naadam. This is a festival celebrating the strength and prowess of herder and horse.
subject: Khangai Herds, Living with Herds, Naadam, ceremony, domestication, ethnography, festival, horse, horse racing, jockey, observational film, pastoralism, racehorse, visual , wrestling
Khangai Herds- winter racing
Fijn, Natasha
Near the capital of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, horses and jockeys race in winter temperatures of more than minus 30 degrees Celcius.
subject: Khangai Herds, Living with Herds, Naadam, domestic animal, ethnography, horse, horseracing, human-animal, jockeys, observational film, winter
Khangai Herds 2- Saikhanaa and the Calves
Fijn, Natasha
This second segment of Khangai Herds features Saikhanaa the herder interacting with yak calves during milking time in the Khangai mountains of Mongolia.
subject: Khangai Herds, Living with Herds, calves, co-domestic, ethnography, human-animal, milking, observational film, pastoralism, visual , yaks