Shaman Tour
Shaman Tour
Laetitia Merli
France / 2009 / 63'
Shaman Tour
Laetitia Merli
France / 2009 / 63'

Every summer, Enkhetuya and her family set up their camp on the Huvsgul Lake shores, in North Mongolia. They are Tsaatan, reindeer herders and she is a famous shaman. They live from tourism, asking money for pictures, souvenirs and special shamanic rituals for the tourists. This year, other Tsaatan families have planned to move down from the taiga to the lake to get their part of the tourist business. The competition to be the first camp on the tourist road is getting harder. The film explores the relationships between locals and tourists as well as the family’s strategies to survive in a globalised world.

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Laetitia Merli

Laetitia Merli is an visual anthropologist and filmmaker (Master in Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester). Specialist of shamanism in Mongolia, she also oriented her research to tourism and neoshamanism. Shaman Tour is her third documentary film about Mongolia and shamanism.

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