The Evolvement of Pasture Use in an Altai Valley (Dund Tömört): Reconstructing the Image Based on Oral History
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | In Ulaankhus bag, Bulgan sum, Bayan-Ölgii province, Mongolia, the current population of mobile pastoralists belonging to the ethnic subgroup of Altai Uriankhais concentrate their summer grazing areas in two separate sub-areas with significantly different natural conditions - one into the vast plain in the vicinity of Lake Sönköl to the east of the Bulgan River and the other in steep mountain valleys in the so-called Western Ridges (Altai Uriankhai: Hoid nurgan) to the west of the Bulgan River (and adjacent to the state border). This division creates two informal (and continuously overlapping) groups in the local, closely interconnected community with slightly different strategies of seasonal pastoral mobility. This paper attempts to show the chronological development of pastoral use strategies, pasture division and changes in ownership relations within the Dund Tömört valley, where the informal community of Altai Uriankhai herders from the Western Ridges is now concentrated. The chronology reconstructed based on the oral history provided by the current herders of the area allows for a detailed description of the development from the time of collective farming (negdel) through the period of privatization to the recent period of rapidly decreasing number of pastoral households. The aim of this microhistorical case study is to examine the informative potential of oral historical sources in studying the local chronology of pasture use. |
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