Folk using of marmot in Mongolia [Usages traditionnels de la marmotte en Mongolie].

Résumé

Marmots are traditional objects of hunting. Fossil of marmots found at archeological excavations show long time using of marmots by the people. People use not only marmot skin. Various and valuable productions were a reason for hunting of these animals. Modern man is losing necessity to get all from nature. But folk experience should be saved as a memory and a part of the culture. People active use of old knowledge in those regions wherein marmots are hunted till now. Questioning and interviewing of local population were used as a one of research methods during expedition on studying of tarbagan populations in Mongolia in 2007. There were question about using of production of hunting for marmots in 72 collected questionnaires. Besides local population was asked and the received information was wrote down. >Thus an aboriginal experience in use of marmots in medical practice and cookery has been collected. The Tibetan medicine and traditional national dishes became very popular in Mongolia again at the last time. The information on use of skin, meat, fat, bones, brown fat, and bile of marmots in Mongolia will be reported.