New York: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. — xviii; 235 p. ISBN 0-203-49582-9 Master e-book ISBN; ISBN 0-203-57450-8 (Adobe eReader Format); ISBN 0-415-33260-5 (Print Edition) This book covers the proceedings of the academic conference "Currents, cross-currents and conflict: transnationalism and diaspora in the Caucasus and Central Asia", held at the...
Aşgabat: Ylym, 2013. — 98 s. Novruz is a national holiday of the Turkmen people Novruz — national holiday of Turkmen people. Nowruz türkmenleriň gadymdan gelýän milli baýramydyr. Halkyň kalbynda we hakydasynda ýaşap gelen bu baýramy ata-babalarymyz täze ýylyň başlanmagy hökmünde baýram edipdirler. Pederlerimiziň iň çuň pelsepelerinden, garaýyşlaryndan gözbaş alyp, asyrlaryň...
Waveland Press Inc., 1983. — 112 p. Ekvall does a fine job of making the cultural traditions of a highland culture come alive in his survey of a society of nomadic pastoralists, aBrog Pa, in northeast ethnic Tibet, where ecology dominates their existence and prescribes their manner of living. Fields on the Hoof is a study of the complex interdependency of many factors: the...
University of California Press, 1990. — 200 p. For sixteen months between June 1986 and June 1988, Melvyn Goldstein and Cynthia Beall lived in Tibet studying a community of roughly three hundred Tibetan nomads at altitudes above 16,000 feet in yak-hair tents, weathering temperatures which reached thirty to forty degrees below zero, drinking butter-salt tea, and eating...
Duke University Press, 1999. — 368 p. Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad by revealing the complex lives and the...
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974. — 146 p. — 12 plates. — 1 map. — ISBN: 3-515-01217-6. Linguistic introduction Contributions to the history of nuristan Contributions to the problem of the pre-muslim religion of nuristan Contributions to a sociology of nuristan Kalash religion and folklore Chitral - folklore of the kho Material heritage and the future of the mountain peoples...
Kabalci Yayinevi, 1999. — 352 s. Türkler, Moğollar ve Tunguzların oluşturduğu Altay toplumlarının yaşayışları dilsel ve dinsel olarak hala tam anlamıyla çözümlenememiştir. Paganizm, Mazdeizm, Budizm, Manihaizm, Nasurilik, Musevilik, Hıristiyanlık ve Müslümanlık ayrıştırılamaz biçimde iç içe geçmiştir. Ülkemizde Türklerin Tarihi, Türklerin ve Moğolların Eski Dini gibi ayrıntılı...
Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-24843-4. Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. Explorations in the Social...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 176 p. This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan's story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the...
Brill, 2007. — 228 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library). This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive...
Brill, 2007. — 228 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library). This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive...
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2017. — 240 p. In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights...
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2017. — 240 p. In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights...
Bloomington: Mongolia Survey, a Publication of The Mongolia Society, No 6, 1999. — p. 56-66. Most significantly, the MRF is now making steps toward helping to enhance the present gene-stock of the Dukha's reindeer by importing up to 100 reindeer from Tofilaria, a Russian district northeast of Tuva. With major funding from the Canadian government and private donors in the U.S....
Bloomington: Indiana Uruversity, Depaftment of Central Eurasian Studies, 2000. — v, 64 p. A thesis submitted to the faculty of the Univetsity Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Tucked away in the northernmost district of Mongolia is a small gtoup of apptoximately thirty reindeer-herding families who call themselves the...
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