Fast' and 'Slow

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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5000792
AutoresCaroline Humphrey (0009-0008-7005-4924, Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
Año2020
Volumen22
Número1
Páginas6-27
Fecha de publicación2020-04-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInner Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-8172 • E-ISSN: 2210-5018
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22105018-12340133
OpenAlexW3021738994
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias 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

Archaeology · China · Constellation · Economic geography · Geography · Inner mongolia · Linguistics · Narrative · Physics · Relay · Sociology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy