Nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders : multispecies and spatial ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia / Charlotte Marchina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchina, Charlotte, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

North-East Asian studies

North East Asian studies

Standardized Title:

Nomad's land

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomads--Mongolia--Social life and customs.

Nomads.

Nomads--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡--Social life and customs.

Human-animal relationships--Mongolia.

Human-animal relationships.

Human-animal relationships--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡a.

Pastures--Mongolia.

Pastures.

Pastures--Russia (Federation)--Buri͡atii͡a.

Manners and customs.

Mongolia--Social life and customs.

Mongolia.

Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia)--Social life and customs.

Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia).

Russia (Federation)--Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡.

Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on transliteration and translations

Transliteration table

Introduction

Nomadizing among the Mongols

On both sides of the Mongolian-Russian border

In the field

The human-animal-environment triad

1. Nomad's land, no man's land?

Nomadizing in Mongolia: adaptations and flexibilities

Nomadizing in Arkhangai Province

Unity and diversity in types of Mongolian nomadization

Flexible routes

From nomadization to migration

Nomadization in Aga: towards sedentarization

Nomadization practices in the territory of Zugalai

Twenty years after: land privatization

From privatization to sedentarization: a commonplace?

2. To hold on and belong to one's land

The attractive forces of the nutag

On the run: animals in search of their nutag

Walk the line: activating centripetal forces

Go your own way: roads and paths of the steppe

Maintaining relations with the invisible entities of the nutag

The ovoo: cornerstone of the relationship with the nutag

Consecrated animals

3. Spaces of species

The pastures

Species and herds

Everyone at home, and the sheep will be well kept

Sharing pastures

Pasture rotation

The autonomy of animals on the pastures

Watching the herds

Autonomy under surveillance

Autonomy and indirect supervision

In search of the herds

Watching with the neighbours

Preventing the mix of small livestock

Monitoring against theft

The encampment and its spaces

Human habitation, occasionally also for animals

Livestock in close proximity to humans: other animals on the encampment

Mobility of encampment structures

Types of enclosure and their uses

The limits of the encampment

4. Animals and territories

Between attachment and detachment: canine interlude

Livestock breeds

Mongolian breeds

Breeds in Aga

Hybridizations

'Hay-ewe, out there in the cold...': local preferences

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

List of figures and pictures

Figures

Figure 1 Location map of the fieldwork sites

Figure 2 Nomadization route of four families in the Bayantsagaan Valley (Marchina 2013: 47)

Figure 3 Comparative table of livestock and nomadization practices of the four herders in 2011

Figure 4 Overview of the nomadization routes of herders in the Bayantsagaan Valley

Figure 5 Kinship diagram of Ganzorig's family

in black, people living on the encampment

Figure 6 Location and characteristics of the six models of Mongolian nomadism distinguished by Simukov (2007: 601-602)

Figure 7 Nomadization routes of Uranchimeg's family in normal or snowy winters

Figure 8 Route of the 650 km migration carried out by Batbayar and his family in 2001

Figure 9 Kinship diagram of Batbayar's and Erdenetsetseg's families

Notes:

"First published as: Nomad's land. Éleveurs, animaux et paysage chez les peuples Mongols. Brussels : Zones Sensibles, 2019"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: MARCHINA, DR. CHARLOTTE. NOMADIC PASTORALISM AMONG THE MONGOL HERDERS.

ISBN:

9789048550111

9048550114

Publisher Number:

99989515140

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