L'’étude transversale et comparée de dessins d’enfant, de la proxémie et des sens corporels utilisés dans les conceptions de l’'environnement révèlent des différences fondamentales entre les Mongols orientaux, nomades, et les populations turco-mongoles de la Mongolie occidentale, sédentarisés, transhumants ou migrants. Ces différentes modalités d’utilisation et de construction de l’'espace renvoient à des perceptions de l’'environnement distinctes. L'’analyse comparative de la proxémie des Mongols et des Kazakhs, des nomades et des transhumants, des pasteurs et des citadins, permet de poser l'’hypothèse d’'une diminution de la place de l’'odorat et de l’'ouïe au profit de la vue. La notion de déplacement, l'’orientation relative ou absolue du corps dans l’'espace changent également en fonction des contextes. Il s’agira alors d’analyser l'’utilisation cognitive des sens en fonction de l’'occupation de l’'espace et de la proxémie d’un groupe donné.

Perceptions of the environment among the Kazakhs of Altaï region.
The compared and cross analysis of children's drawings between two populations of Mongolia (the Eastern Mongols, nomadic shepherds, and the Western Kazakhs, settled, transhumant or migrant peoples) on the one handreveals, deep differences in the representations of the surrounding space.
On the other hand, the use of body senses shows two different organisations of the perceptions of the environment. These distinct modes of inhabiting and symbolic building of the space bring to light several different perceptions of the surrounding environment. To compare the Mongol's perceptions of the environment with the Kazakh's, the settled peoples' with the nomads', the shepherds' with the city dwellers', enable us to formulate an hypothesis of the change between the organisation of the body senses in order to perceive the surrounding environment ; this hypothesis seems more relevant in the case of vision, audition and smell. Therefore, the notion of movement, which could be seen as a sense close to the touch, receives our full attention. The movements and the body's orientation in space are changing in relation to the context. Thus, we will analyze the use and organisation of body senses in relation to the modes of inhabiting for a given society.

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