Between movement and fixity, where is the homeland in Mongolia?
(2014) Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement — Location: Australian National University (3.February.2014)
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- In Mongolia, among the nomadic herders, mobility is an essential aspect of the extensive herding of sheep and goats. It ensures the survival of the domestic animals and the renewal of the grassy pastures. And yet, quite paradoxically, a whole series of practices accounts for the herders’ attachment to what they call their ‘törsön nutag’, their homeland, which is their place of birth. As the ethnography reveals, it is impossible to study these relationships without taking into account kinship, mobility, fixity, temporality and ritual activity.
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Charlier, B. (2014). Between movement and fixity, where is the homeland in Mongolia? Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement, Australian National University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/72905