The project aims to analyse internal changes in the Mongol-Turkic (mainly Mongolian and Kazakh) multi-ethnic contact areas of Mongolia to the identities of rural communities as expressed in the memories of belonging and orally transmitted awareness of local geography and in relation to the land use strategies of mobile pastoralists (evolvement of movement patterns). The project is based on the innovative connection of methods of oral history and research of the oral tradition as a source of history in addressing changing identities of marginalized communities, ongoing metamorphoses in unprofessional parts of oral heritage and land use evolvement, which is expected to provide important data for current environmental issues. Main outputs of the project include a digital database of seasonal moves of mobile pastoralists during the last hundred years, a digital database of the endangered oral tradition, and the analysis of the main research problems in form of a comparative monograph analysing the current state of the local history-related oral tradition between transmitted and constructed memories.

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