pastoralism - Mongolian Digital Ethnography Archive

Losing Ground
Rappa, Bradley

subject: Mongolia, environment, mining, pastoralism, urbanization

Khangai Herds 7- Medicinal Treatment
Fijn, Natasha

This segment of Khangai Herds shows how the Mongolian herder, Lhagva, treats her herd animals using medicinal herbs.

subject: Living with Herds, animal care, co-domestic, domestication, ethnography, goat, human-animal, khangai herds, lamb and kids, magic medicine, medicinal herbs, observational film, pastoralism, visual

Khangai Herds 1- Saikhanaa the Herder
Fijn, Natasha

This first segment introduces the young Mongolian herder Saikhanaa. He lives with his mother in a herding encampment with a more prosperous family, Choijo and Naraa’s extended family.

subject: Living with Herds, Saikhanaa, co-domestic relationship, herd animals, herding, human-animal relations, khangai herds, mountains, observational film, pastoralism, singing, visual ethnography

Khangai Herds 8- Training for Naadam
Fijn, Natasha

The eighth segment of Khangai Herds features the training of racehorses for the national festival of Mongolia, the Naadam.

subject: Living with Herds, Naadam, co-domestic, domestication, ethnography, horse, horse training, human-animal, khangai herds, observational film, pastoralism, racehorses, racing, visual

Khangai Herds 6- A Day in the Life
Fijn, Natasha

This sixth segment of Khangai Herds features a day in the life of a Mongolian herding woman, who has ten children and twenty-six grandchildren.

subject: Living with Herds, co-domestic, domestication, encampment, ethnography, family encampment, herding, human-animal, khangai herds, nomadic, nurturing animals, observational film, pastoralism, reciprocal, visual , wolf

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 4- moving encampments
Fijn, Natasha

This fourth segment of Khangai Herds features two separate nomadic family encampments in the valleys of the Khangai mountains of Mongolia.

subject: Living with Herds, co-domestic, domestication, encampment, ethnography, herd animal, herding, human-animal, khangai herds, observational film, ox, pastoralism, pasture, visual , yak

Khangai Herds 5 - Lhagva the Herder
Fijn, Natasha

This is the fifth segment of ‘Khangai Herds’, featuring herders and their herd animals co-existing together in the Khangai mountains of Mongolia. Lhagva sings a song about her venerable mother.

subject: Living with Herds, animal naming, calf birth, co-domestic, domestication, herding, human-animal, khangai herds, making, observational film, pastoralism, singing

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