AFF/Pastoral Dairying in Rural Mongolia: Microbes as Heritage

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How to Cite: Reichhardt, B. . (2022). Pastoral Dairying in Rural Mongolia: Microbes as Heritage. Archaeology of Food and Foodways, 1(1), 85–102. https://doi.org/10.1558/aff.15577

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In this photo essay, I illustrate ethnographic encounters with dairying practices and dairy microbes in various regions of Mongolia. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during two consecutive summers, this essay focuses on the sociocultural role of microbial starter cultures in producing diverse dairy products (such as fermented mare’s milk) and in cross-generational knowledge transfer. The Mongolian word for starter culture is khöröngö, which also means capital and heritage. In this context, a sociocultural anthropological approach sheds new light on starter cultures as mobile entities of value across space and time.

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    Image
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  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    85 KB
  • container title
    Archaeology of Food and Foodways
  • creator
    Björn Reichhardt
  • issn
    2514-8389 (Online)
  • issue
    1.1
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • rights holder
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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