Presentation
I have been conducting research in Mongolia since 2014. My initial work focused on Buryat shamanic rituals, before gradually expanding, during my doctoral research, to other themes. My PhD thesis, entitled “Family Stories. Ethics, Sociability, and Mourning in Rural Mongolia”, asks what it means to be a family in Mongolia, while also examining the place of ethics within this dynamic: how is the concern with being a “good” (sain) person articulated with the making of family, particularly among Buryat herder-farmers in Mongolia?
I delve into this broad question through eight stories that describe the relational dynamics within a network of “relatives” (ah düü) and/or neighbours. These stories, which take place in various contexts, also explore diverse subjects such as the relation to the dead and mourning, shamanic rituals, the relationship to the “land” (nutag), issues related to mining in Mongolia and approaches to wealth.
Today, within the framework of my postdoctoral research, I pursue research on relations within networks of “relatives”, as well as on questions of ethics and morality, with a different focus: the everyday lives of young women who are directly or indirectly involved in sex work in Mongolia, most notably in Ulaanbaatar.
Research thematics
- Anthropology of kinship
- Anthropology of morals and ethics
- Shamanic rituals
- Sociability
- Mourning and relations with the dead
- Neighbourhood relations
- Mining activities
CRCAO research programmes
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