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

Mongolian Seterlekh Ceremony
Fijn, Natasha

The seterlekh ceremony is an anti-sacrifice, where an individual animal is liberated from being killed for meat.

subject: Buddhism, blessing, ceremony, cow, lama, pastoralisms, seter, yak