Forms of Nomadism and Livestock Management of the Eastern Sayan Buryats in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Forms of Nomadism and Livestock Management of the Eastern Sayan Buryats in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

D.M. Mansheev.

The present article characterizes the local model of nature management by the Buryat people inhabiting the eastern foothills of the Sayan Mountains. The author describes traditional types of nomadic pastoralism, their transformation at forest-steppe, piedmont, and high-mountain areas with an integrated economy. Various forms of animal husbandry practised by the Eastern Sayan Buryats are distinguished. The differences are determined by natural landscape environment peculiarities, pasture sizes, livestock quantity and breeds, as well as farming development level. The culture of the Eastern Sayan Buryats preserved its animal husbandry orientation in the course of structural and character changes of their day-to-day operating activities and operating cycles.

Keywords: Eastern Sayan Buryats, models of nature management, types and forms of animal husbandry.