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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.
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, R. Burmaa interview, NGO/women's org
Penn Museum
Interview with Burmaa - NGO/Woman’s Organization. B.Roll.
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.
LamaInterviewAndBuddhistMonastery
Penn Museum
Buddhist Monastery. Exterior shot; monks accepting money. Lama Interview.
Owen Lattimore interviewed by Caroline Humphrey, 21st May 1983 – Part 1 (transcript)
Lattimore, Owen
Owen Lattimore describes Mongolia of the early 20th century and the aftermath of revolutions in that period.
The Mongols of Manchuria
Lattimore, Owen
Full title: The Mongols of Manchuria: Their tribal divisions, geographical distribution, historical relations with Manchus and Chinese, and present political problems.
subject: Manchuria, colonization
Studies In Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928-1958
Lattimore, Owen
Collection of essays on the history of Inner Asia as a “frontier” region, addressing the relationship between nomadic and sedentary peoples.
subject: Inner Asia
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
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
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
Oral history interview No. 090744A with Osor (b. 1955): translation
Osor
A former cooperative horse herder. Now he is a race horse trainer, herder.
subject: airag, authority, belief, collectivization, drinking, gambling, oral history, privatization, repressions
Oral history interview No. 081218A with Davaasambuu (b. 1958): translation
Davaasambuu
Oral history interview with Ööldöh Davaasambuu
subject: democracy, military, oral history, prison, privatization, sports
Oral history interview No. 090744B with Osor (b. 1955): translation
Osor
In the second part of his interview, Osor talked extensively about horses. He never imagined himself learning and becoming educated. He always thought of busying himself with horses.
subject: gender, horse races, oral history, wedding
Oral history interview No. 090213B with Nadmid (b. 1936): translation
Nadmid
J. Nadmid was born in 1936. She tended livestock before she got married. She worked as a janitor and cleaner at sum and brigade centers. From 1990 she started tending livestock.
subject: childhood, democracy, environment, funerals, horse relay, oral history, travel, urban life
Oral history interview No. 090759B with Ariunzaya (b. 1976): translation
Ariunzaya
Ariunzaya egch told how she established a congregation [tsuglaan] in Dornod aimag. Her uncle lived in Dornod, which is why she went there by car in 1996.
subject: belief, family, funerals, illness, oral history, travel
Oral history interview No. 090745B with Garamhand (b. 1934): translation
Garamhand
In the second part of her interview J. Garamhand told about the people who worked at the trade organizations. In the socialist period they occasionally had the problem of being in debt.
subject: Khatanbaatar Magsarjav, keepsakes, military, oral history, railway, trade, work