Moving Image type index
Caroline Humphrey interview part 1
Humphrey, Caroline
Caroline Humphrey interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th August 2010
Caroline Humphrey interview part 2
Humphrey, Caroline
Caroline Humphrey interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 5th August 2010
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 3- Saikhanaa and the Horses
Fijn, Natasha
This is the third installment of Khangai Herds, featuring herders and herd animals in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia. This segment follows on from ‘Saikhanaa and the Calves’.
subject: Living with Herds, airag, co-domestic, domestication, horses, human-animal, khangai herds, mare milking, milking, mountains, observational film, pastoralisms, 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- 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
Living with Herds Vocalisation Dictionary
Fijn, Natasha
This is a visual dictionary showing how Mongolian herders vocalise to their herd animals, followed by the response of the herd animal(s).
subject: domestication, herd animals, herder, human-animal, khangai herds, observational film, vocalisations
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
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
Owen Lattimore interviewed by Caroline Humphrey, 21st May 1983 – Part 1
Lattimore, Owen
Owen Lattimore describes Mongolia of the early 20th century and the aftermath of revolutions in that period.
subject: pastoral life, labour relations, gender, social stratification, Russians in Mongolia, Kazakhs in Mongolia
Mongolia II—The City on the Steppes
Lattimore, Owen; Moser, Brian
The second of two films on Mongolia made by Granada Television in 1974–75 looks at life in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia and home of a quarter of the population.
subject: naadam, Tsagaan Sar, urban life
Mongolia I—On the Edge of the Gobi
Lattimore, Owen; Moser, Brian
Mongolia is a country the size of Western Europe with under 1.5 million people but over 23 million head of livestock.
subject: herding, social change, rural life
LamaInterviewAndBuddhistMonastery
Penn Museum
Buddhist Monastery. Exterior shot; monks accepting money. Lama Interview.
Mongolia, Shaman Ceremony at Mother Rock
Penn Museum
Offerings, incense. Crowd, people (many NMMH staff members with family). [5:04] Pan up to Shaman. [6:19] Offering. [8:24] Shaman hits camera for blessing. [9:40] Shaman hits camera for blessing.
Mongolia, R. Burmaa interview, NGO/women's org
Penn Museum
Interview with Burmaa - NGO/Woman’s Organization. B.Roll.
Mongolia, Interview with Mongolian Teenager Erika, Part 2; Zanaa Jurmed
Penn Museum
Erika Interview Part 2 of 2. B roll - Erika with younger sister Betty. Zanaa Jurmed Interview. Zanaa’s personal photos include some from 1990 hunger strike.
Mongolia, Interview with Old Woman Herder (Pensioner)
Penn Museum
(Grandparents of Tuya’s friend). Inside nice Ger (Pensioners’ ger). [22:55] B Roll, Hand sewing, man in foreground, details. [38:00] Getting into truck, (cute). [38:50] Power window on truck.