This chapter examines the concrete modalities of Mongolian and Buryat
herders’ seasonal mobility patterns – how do pastoralists and their animals
nomadize? – as well as highlighting the structural differences and
similarities that characterize nomadization practices on both sides of the
Mongolia-Russia border, determined by political, economic, social and
environmental factors. On a more local scale, systematic GPS recordings
show global trends as well as individual variations. Using a short-term
diachronic approach, this chapter sheds light on the occasional changes in
nomadization practices, the abiding adaptation strategies that herders are
implementing due to increasing climatic variations and land privatization
projects or implementations. This chapter postulates that the common use
of land is a necessary condition for the maintenance of nomadic pastoralism.