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Chez les nomades kazakhs de l'Altaï mongol" exhibition, April 4 to 21, 2022
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Photographic exhibition Chez les nomades kazakhs de l'Altaï mongol
From April 4 to 21, 2022
Monday to Saturday - 08:00 - 22:00
Galerie de l'auditorium
65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris
In Western Mongolia, in the Altai mountain range, over 1000 km from the capital Ulan Bator, live around 100,000 Kazakhs. This ethnic (Kazakh), cultural (Muslim) and linguistic (Kazakh-speaking) minority leads a lifestyle very similar to that of the Mongols, who are Buddhists and speak Mongolian: these nomads breed horses, camels, cattle, sheep and goats, and travel with their herds, families and yurts several times a year. Evolving in the high mountains, they practice a vertical nomadism characterized on the one hand by a wide altitudinal amplitude between the hot and cold seasons, and on the other by a very high degree of mobility, which we have been able to highlight in recent years thanks to methodological innovations combining classical anthropological survey and the use of GPS collars.
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The photos presented in this exhibition by Charlotte Marchina were taken as part of a multidisciplinary research project whose aim was to study pastoral mobility in past and present times among Kazakh herders in the Mongolian Altai. She visited these herders four times over three years, between 2015 and 2018, to document their practices. This research was co-funded by and conducted in collaboration with the Mission Archéologique Française dans l'Altaï, CNRS, MNHN, LabEx BCDiv and Inalco.
Free admission
Contact: charlotte.marchina@inalco.fr
