RENCONTRE ENTRE LE SACRÉ, LE PATRIMOINE ET LES PRATIQUES TOURISTIQUES EN MONGOLIE CONTEMPORAINE.

As powerful Mongolian sacred landscape components, mountains bear witness of an intimate and long-standing relationship between the Mongolian people and its intangible cultural heritage. The senses of these places come from an affective bond as well as religious, symbolic, and emotional engagements with mountains. Since the 1990's, democratization and the independence of Mongolia paved the way for heritage processes of sacred mountains. Raised as national heritage, they integrated collective imaginaries of Mongolian sacred landscape. However, the experience of these places has been reinvented throughout popular practices like pilgrimage, tourism and other recreational activities. Bringing the interconnexions between the sacred, symbolic landscape and tourist practices to light, this article explores the plurality of the relationship to the sacred that manifests in the Mongolian geography nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]