Friday 13 October 2023 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Edmund Leach Room, Department of Social Anthropology
About
Hiking to the Past: memory landscape of contemporary Mongolia
Alevtina Solovyeva, University of Tartu
The report shares a starting project in folklore, memory studies and visual anthropology in contemporary urban and rural space in Mongolia. During the presentation, some discoveries from the first fieldwork will be shared. The presentation will encourage discussions about contemporary approaches and theories regarding oral history and folklore, demonstrate on empirical experience how concepts of ‘place-lore’ and ‘microhistory’ can be applied and to what results they might lead. The presentation will also aim to observe and talk about the topical memory map of contemporary Mongolia in historical and contemporary contexts.
Keywords: memory studies, place-lore, microhistory, visual anthropology, documentary and research, Mongolia