Fast' and 'Slow

Abstract Thinking and 'Real Experience' in Two Mongolian Non-Pastoral Modes of Travel

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5000792
AutoresCaroline Humphrey (0009-0008-7005-4924, Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
Ano2020
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas6-27
Data de publicação2020-04-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInner Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-8172 • E-ISSN: 2210-5018
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22105018-12340133
OpenAlexW3021738994
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas20

This paper discusses two non-nomadic modes of transport in 1930s-60s Mongolia: the horse relay system and the goods caravan. It suggests that each of these should be seen as a 'mobility constellation' involving entanglements of mobility, narrative and practice, and implying different social relations and experience of the environment. It is argued that the relay system in particular involved abstract distance-speed calculation and that this enabled the conception of extensive cross-border geographies. The paper also explains why herders who took part in (fast) relay and (slow) caravan duties greatly preferred the latter

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