Eagle Hunting: Marketization of Traditional Practice By Lucy Xu Photo: Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0). The 6000-year-old tradition of eagle hunting in the far west of Mongolia is a fascinating aspect of Mongolian culture that first drew me to the country. I did a little background reading on eagle hunting before coming to Mongolia onContinue reading “ANU Students in Mongolia 2018, Post No. 3 ‘Eagle Hunting’”
Category Archives: Environment
ANU Students in Mongolia: Post No. 1. ‘Mining & Dining’
As part of an ANU Mongolia Institute course, twelve students traveled to Mongolia to participate in the intensive study tour ‘Modern Mongolia: challenges to the environment, economy and empire’, coordinated by Prof. Li Narangoa and Dr Jack Fenner. MongolInk will feature a series of posts written by students during their field experience in Mongolia inContinue reading “ANU Students in Mongolia: Post No. 1. ‘Mining & Dining’”
Changes in the Mongolian Countryside
This year I spent some valuable time filming in the countryside during the Mongolian spring, from March until May. Changes in the Mongolian countryside are not as immediately evident as the rapid development of infrastructure and the polluted and clogged roads of the capital, Ulaanbaatar. When we drove into the river valley I hadContinue reading “Changes in the Mongolian Countryside”
Are There Human Health Risks in Groundwater in Inner Mongolia?
Groundwater is an essential freshwater resource for many people in dry, remote, and sparsely populated regions. In the summer of 2015 and 2016 we observed the water quality of groundwater within an environmental science study and carried out questionnaires and spoken surveys about their lifestyle within an anthropological study in Inner Mongolia. The survey wasContinue reading “Are There Human Health Risks in Groundwater in Inner Mongolia?”
ANU Mongolia Update in Ulaanbaatar, 2016
Coping with emerging risk of natural disasters in Mongolia
Nomadic animal husbandry has a tradition spanning thousands of years in Mongolia, where herding communities are highly dependent on their livestock and therefore vulnerable to natural phenomena. With just over three million people and one of the sparsest per capita land areas in the world, the country is extremely vulnerable to climate change and itsContinue reading “Coping with emerging risk of natural disasters in Mongolia”
Informal life politics in Mongolia
Resource development projects have brought severe contamination and destruction to the ecological environment across the grasslands of Mongolia. The everyday life and livelihood of local residents, including herding communities, is under excessive threat. Grassroots action to protect the grasslands and livelihoods have become increasingly strident in response to this escalating environmental pollution. My research focusesContinue reading “Informal life politics in Mongolia”