Nomadic Encounters features multimedia about nomadic families in Mongolia.

It grew out of my 2007 Fulbright Award to experience and record the feeling of living on the move in Mongolia's immense spaces.

Over the course of almost 2 years, I lived with different families and recorded the sounds of them at work, at play, and at rest.

This site contains excerpts from that research - articles, prose vignettes, work-in-progress multimedia programs and an overview of multimedia collected.

UPDATE (Feb 2012)

Currently editing On the Move in Mongolia, a half hour radio documentary about Mongolian women for Outer Voices. Big thanks to the Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund and The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation for supporting post-production costs.

•Read vignettes (posted on nafella.com)
Thanksgiving in Bayan-Olgii
Camels in the Gobi
Sheepherding with Ulaanaa
Why this Place, Why Now

• Watch an Audiovisual program:
Camels in the Gobi
A Happy Day in Hovsgol
Herding with Ulaanaa

• Read an article about horse-riding in Hovsgol province (published in Time Out Mumbai)

• Support Nomadic Encounters.

• Read about other Sounds & Stories:
Spring in Hentii, Summer in Hovsgol,
Autumn in the Gobi & Winter in Bayan-Olgii.