The article is devoted to the principles of social organization among the nomadic population of modern Mongolia. Regarding the nomadic population of the studied territories, the authors identify two approaches to the formation of territorial communities of nomads. The first approach is associated with the integration of nomadic households into the market system of relations and the achievement of a high level of marketability. This served as a kind of trigger for economic individualization and the formation of nomadic families as separate economic cells. The second is the formation of a territorial community based on the economic and other interaction of specific individual households, representing the nomadic population that migrated from different remote regions. This heterogeneity opposes the tendencies of unification based on the principle of fraternal or kinship ties. And here, the fundamental principle of community is the place of residence.
Mongolia, nomads, social organization, social connections, community, kinship, territoriality, neighborly
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