The mobility of home is an image common to us as ethnographic notion. The yurt is depicted with all the typical accoutrements of nomad life: the urg-pole propped on the left is for lassoing livestock, cheese dries on racks on the roof, clothes are tucked into lashing ropes, the family’s herding dog guards the doorway. The basketball hoop behind the yurt is the modern intervention, now somehow typical of life on the steppe.