Is this your first winter in Mongolia? Are you wondering how to conduct yourself during Tsagaan Sar? Fear not. For the 5th year in a row, ACMS is organizing a Tsagaan Sar Workshop to introduce the customs and traditions to those unfamiliar with this special holiday. Tsagaan Sar is a family festival, which is celebrated […]
Synopsys Her research focuses on the reinterpretation and reinvention of "traditional" clothing in contemporary Mongolia. Why are we so attached to them in Mongolia? What are its place in Mongolian society today? For example, the deel is the primary garment of the Mongols, it can be described as a dress-coat, consisting of a collar, long sleeves, and a single-breasted […]
Objects in an Ecosystem: The Ethnoarchaeology of Mongolian Hide and Fiber Crafts Synopsys This talk presents the preliminary results of ethnoarchaeological fieldwork conducted in autumn, 2018, with support from the ACMS. In Mongolia, ethnoarchaeological methods have been applied with great success to questions of mobile pastoralist site formation and landscape use; however, the potential for […]
Synopsis This ESRC-GCRF funded project develops a Mediation Model for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (MMSID) to promote inclusive economic development and social welfare in the context of Chinese mega infrastructure initiatives in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. While large-scale infrastructure projects represent a key mechanism of economic growth and development, they also bring unintended and negative consequences […]
Synopsis Long-term archaeological studies have shown that there were two major populations with different cultural identities living in Mongolia and the surrounding regions during the Late Bronze Age. One was the Deer Stone Khirigsuur Culture (DSKC), the other the Slab Grave Culture (SGC). These two groups coexisted in the same territory from the 13th century […]
Synopsys There is a long tradition in Hungarian academia of conducting field research among the Mongols, dating back to the 1870s. Since then, several students from a variety of research fields visited Mongolia, such as Vilmos Diószegi, who worked with Darkhat and Buryat shamans in the 1950s. After the political turn in the early nineties, […]
The Hip-Hop Scene Among Mongols in Mongolia and China: Witnessing the Development of a New Tradition throughout the Mongolian Diaspora. Synopsys Mongolian hip hop culture is one that combines adventurous dancing, fierce ethnic pride, unabashed borrowing and innovation, and brave social and political critique. In Mongolia, those immersed in the hip hop community are both […]
Synopsis Given the growing research on traditional ecological knowledge and its use in resource management, there is a need to understand the relationship between indicators to assess resource condition used by researchers and those used by local herders. To better understand indicators used by herders, we conducted in-depth field interviews with 26 herders in three […]
Synopsis The Xiongnu regime mobilized a vast variety of herder households and mounted archers across Inner Asia. Yet much of the scholarly attention given to this first nomadic empire has focused on the uppermost echelons, whether through historical accounts of famous battles and court intrigues, or through excavations of massive ramped tombs of the steppe […]
Synopsis Since the end of state socialism in Mongolia, animal ownership has shifted from being largely collective-based to being vested in private households. Much attention has been given to how herding households strive to increase the sizes of their flocks. From this perspective, increasing the quantity of herd animals is seen as a response to […]
