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Bradley Rappa: Losing Ground
The ethnographic film “Losing Ground” documents how climate change, overgrazing, and the destructive mining processes that are currently being used in Mongolia are dramatically changing the traditional pastoral lifestyles of the many rural Mongolian families who depend on healthy and biologically diverse ecosystems for their survival.

Photographs of Dalshbalbar sum
Black-and-white photographs of Dashbalbar sum, Dornod aimag by B. Batbuyan (1993). These photographs focus on (1) ovoo worship and (2) the local pastoral economy.

Photographs of Barguzin
Photographs of Barguzin, Buryatia by Bair Gomboev (1993).

Eric Thrift: Field recordings from Selenge
The video field recordings in this collection were produced in Selenge aimag, Mongolia in 2012 as part of Eric Thrift’s research on “Adaptive Capacity of Pastoral Resource Users in Mongolia”.

Eric Thrift: Video field recordings from Dornogovi
The video field recordings in this collection were produced in Dornogovi aimag, Mongolia in 2012 as part of Eric Thrift’s research on “Adaptive Capacity of Pastoral Resource Users in Mongolia”.