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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 14:26:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I found a copy of the paperback edition a couple of years ago. I did not pick it up, I regret that now! The history of Turkic speaking tribes in Eastern Europe is often neglected by historians - especially, between the post-Hunnic and pre-Ottoman periods. Today I found an interesting book on the Scythians at Foyles bookstore in London - the same bookshop I found István Vásáry's book. I'll probably regret not purchasing this one too! Here's the cover and description. B.S. Mahal presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of history of the nomads of the Central Asian steppe. He has garnered and drawn from a vast array of written works, some ancient and some brought to light more recently, to create a compelling narrative. Painstakingly researched are the origins and ethnography of Scythians that until now had remained unexplored, indeterminate, and vague. From congeries of steppe nomads the author brings a distinct coherence to Scythian group identity. According to the author the ethnic streams that flow into this affiliation are familial tribes of Indo-Iranians called Massagetae, Tahshak, Alan, Dahae, Saka, and Getae. Precisely delineated is the Scythian penetration of the Indus valley region, prompted by unique impulses at various times from different geographical areas. Although Scythian ingress was mostly migratory, the author cites a large-scale relocation by Darius of defeated hostile Massagetae ( stout ) Getae, pronounced je-te from Central Asia to northern India a well established policy of the times of deporting enemy fighters to remote parts of the empire as a means of putting an end to their reconstituting into a viable fighting force. Previously just surmised, Mahal s account establishes an incontrovertible link between the Jats of the Indian Subcontinent and the Scythians of antiquity. By pointing to curious similitude to one another of rites and practices of Scythians and Jats and meticulously juxtaposing their traits and temperament he makes a powerful argument that these traditions and characteristics were acquired by India s Jats from Scythian forebears. When Scythians entered India they embraced Buddhism which was the prevailing faith of the time. Later, their descendants, the Jats, converted to Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism; but they remained Jats, and their link with the Steppe endured. Jats are widely dispersed throughout the Punjab region of Pakistan and India and a good number of them are to be found in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The author s book is a blend of perceptive observations and painstaking research. The text is well-illustrated with figures and maps. What the reader will find immensely useful is an exhaustive bibliography of books, articles, and papers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 14:35:10 GMT -5
Here are some books concerning the nomadic tribes between the Hunnic and Ottoman eras in Eastern Europe. These books look great, but very expensive! The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450) Edited by Florin Curta. Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. Description For most students in medieval studies, Eastern Europe is marginal and East European topics simply exotica. A peculiar form of Orientalism may thus be responsible for the exclusion of the Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans from the medieval history of the European continent. This collection of studies is an attempt to stimulate research in a comparative mode and to open up a broader discussion about such key themes as material culture, ethnicity, historical memory, or conversion in the context of social and political developments in early medieval Europe. Another goal of this volume is to introduce a number of new approaches to the study of what is known as medieval nomads. Without explicitly rejecting the model of raid vs. trade famously introduced by Anatoly Khazanov, many contributions in this volume shift the emphasis on internal developments that have received until now little or no attention. Contributors are: Tivadar Vida, Peter Stadler, Peter Somogyi, Uwe Fiedler, Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska, Bart omiej Szymon Szmoniewski, Florin Curta, Valeri Iotov, Veselina Vachkova, Tsvetelin Stepanov, Dimitri Korobeinikov, and Victor Spinei.
Avars, Bulgars and Magyars on the Middle and Lower Danube: Proceedings of the Bulgarian-Hungarian Meeting, Sofia, May 27-28, 2009, German and English Edition, edited by Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova, Csilla Balogh and Attila Turk, Archaeolingua 2014.
Description The most recent result of the study of the relationship between the Bulgars and Hungarians, which has a long history in the research of the early Middle Ages, is the volume of archaeological essays entitled Avars, Bulgars and Magyars on the Middle and Lower Danube, which contains the written versions of the presentations from the Bulgarian-Hungarian international archaeological conference held in Sofia on the 27th-28th of May, 2009, supplemented by a few more essays. The 264-page work presents the reader with 16 papers written by a total of 9 Bulgarian and 8 Hungarian authors and is richly illustrated with more than 40 color tables. The book sums up the most recent research results from the last couple of decades in the light of the historical/archaeological problems in the Balkans and the Carpathian Basin from the 7th-11th centuries and the relationships between the two regions as well as all of eastern Europe. A virtue of the book is that in addition to the issues of research history and theories, the majority of the essays provide the reader with a systematic cataloguing of objects in English based on extensive collections, which is without precedent.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 14:43:03 GMT -5
This is another recent and expensive publication concerning the weaponry during the Avar Age. Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons: Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology by Gergely Csiky, Brill; Lam edition, 2015.
Description In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th early 7th centuries, the Avars led successful military campaigns against the Balkan realms of the Byzantine Empire, facilitated by their cavalry s use of stirrups for the first time in Europe. Besides the classification, manufacturing techniques, fittings, suspension, distribution, and chronology of polearms and edged weapons known from Avar-age burials, a special emphasis is laid on the origins and cultural contacts of these weapons, among them the first edged weapons with curved blades: the sabres. The social significance and, function of these artefacts is discussed in order to place them in nomadic warfare.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 17:41:40 GMT -5
The legendary wanderings of St. Andrew is very interesting. The spread of Christianity amongst the Central Asia tribes is another interesting topic. I don't think the Hephthalites (aka White Huns) adopted christianity as a state religion, they like most nomadic tribes were probably very tolerant (or indifferent) of the various belief systems of their subjects; along with Christianity these included Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism etc. By the time of Genghis Khan, the Naiman and Kerait tribes of Mongolia were at least in part Nestorian Christian. The Ongut tribe by the 'Great Wall' were also Nestorian Christian and had their own ' Marco Polo' by the name of Rabban Bar Sauma, who was sent to Europe as an ambassador in the late 13th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabban_Bar_Sauma Thanks Deuce.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 13:56:13 GMT -5
BBC docudrama Heroes and Villains: Attila the Hun, 2008.With Rory McCann's portrayal of Attila. Anyway pour yourself a nice scotch, or Kumiz/Ayrag and Enjoy
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 16:37:57 GMT -5
The Conversion of the Kerait tribe to Nestorian Christianity: According to Bar Hebraeus.
'When the king of the people who are called Khyreth, that is to say the inner Turkaye, who live in the north-east, was hunting in one of the high mountains in his country, he fell into a region of deep snow, and he lost the path and wandered about distractedly. And when he had lost all hope of saving his life, one of the saints appeared to him in a revelation and said unto him, If thou wilt believe in Christ I will be thy guide so that thou shalt not die here "; and when the king had promised him that he would be a sheep in the fold of Christ, the saint guided him and brought him out into the open ground. When the king returned to his camp, he summoned to him certain Christian merchants who had business there, and he enquired of them concerning the Faith, and they said unto him, "A man cannot be perfect except through baptism." And he took from them a Gospel, and behold he bows down before it every day. And now he hath sent and asked me to go to him, or send to him a priest to baptize him. And he asked me questions about fasting, saying, "With the exception of flesh and milk we have no food at all; how then can we fast? "And he also said, that the number of those who believed with him amounted to two thousand.
"Then the Catholicus sent to the Metropolitan and told him that he must send two persons, elders and deacons, and with them the equipment of an altar, and that they must go and baptize those who have believed, and must teach them Christian customs, and that during the Lord's Fast (i.e. Lent) they must abstain from flesh food. But they were to permit them to drink milk only, provided that foods which were suitable for seasons of fasting were not, as they said, found in their country."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2016 12:00:29 GMT -5
Kazakh TV: Enigma of the Great Steppe (In English)Episode 5: The Ablaikit Buddhist Monastery of Eastern KazakhstanPallas, Peter Simon. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794. London, 1812.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 10:50:14 GMT -5
A couple of books concerning Shamanism in the Altai area of the Russian Federation. Alexander & Luba Arbachakov, with an introduction by Llyn Roberts, The Last of the Shor Shamans, Moon Books, 2008.www.amazon.com/Last-Shor-Shamans-Alexander-Arbachakov/dp/184694127X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481729848&sr=1-1&keywords=shor+shaman From the author.
'It has been our aim to show that among the Shor people, the tradition of turning to the kam (Siberian Shor word for shaman), is still very much alive. Unfortunately, until very recently, no researcher has seriously carried out studies into this aspect of the Shor culture.
Shamanism as a social institution represents an alloy that combines a system of views on the model of the universe with the traditional oral transmission of fundamental knowledge, rites and laws. In previous times, almost every Shor `ulus' - village, had its kam who played a significant role in the life of the villagers.
Together with the kaichi* - the traditional keepers of the culture, the `tellers' - the kam were the real keepers of the people's knowledge and culture. Time and History would have it, however, that they are now gradually disappearing.
It is essential that we learn and preserve all that the kam know and remember. Without its language, traditions and memory of the ancestors, a nation becomes moribund. Today the Siberian Shor people number only 12,000 in total.' - Alexander and Luba Arbachakov.
Kira Van Deusen, Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia, University of Washington Press, 2004.Description.
Singing Story, Healing Drum explores the shamanic practices, worldview, oral traditions, and music of the Turkic peoples of Tuva and Khakassia (south Siberia), past and present. It is based on the author's fieldwork since 1993, conducting interviews, recording stories, participating in rituals and everyday life. Set in the context of social change in the post-Soviet period, it includes conversations, folktales, legends, and shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions, and introduces ethnographic literature in Russian, mostly unavailable in the West. Wherever possible, the material comes through the voices of indigenous people: scholars, practitioners, and participants in cultural review.
Kira Van Deusen presents an integrated, holistic picture of Turkic spiritual culture, exploring the inner world shamans and other visionaries describe and the ways they cross the boundaries between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. Since nomadic life is never static, its traditional expression comes through performing arts―music and oral poetry―more than visual representation. Most of these arts involve sound and the processes are equally as important as the results. They involve the whole community and are vital in the revival of indigenous culture today.
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Post by deuce on Dec 14, 2016 15:02:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 16:55:26 GMT -5
Roy Andrew Miller: Japanese and Korean as an Altaic Language.
Roy Andrew Miller. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Andrew_Miller
Roy Andrew Miller, Languages and History: Japanese, Korean, and Altaic, Orchid Press, 2006.
Description. Summarizing what is known of the history and prehistory of Korean and Japanese, a problem that necessarily involves their possible genetic relationship to the Altaic (Turkic, Mongiol, Tungus) languages, the author examines--and demonstrates that it is necessary to reject--arguments now dominant in most Western scolarship that would attribute all similarities among these languages to borrowing rather than genetic relationship. He argues that the now widely accepted truism that "Korean and Japanese cannot be Altaic languages" because "there are no Altaic languages" can no longer seriously be maintained. Korean and Japanese both possess important early written records, until now either ignored or largely misrepresented by those who dismiss the Altaic hyphotesis. The author shows that these texts, when approached with proper philological precision, bolster the Altaic hyphotesis in much the same way that the discovery of Tokharian and Hittite materials earlier stimulated and clarified Indo-European historical linguistics.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 12:18:26 GMT -5
Interesting. I always considered that the initial expansion of Altaic languages from Mongolia started with the Xiongnu (Hunnu). But, even before that expansion they probably mixed with Indo-European, Paleo-Siberian speaking tribes and probably assimilated other unknown linguistic/ethnic groups. Thanks Deuce.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 12:48:02 GMT -5
Martial Arts of a Turkic World #1: The Great Turks
The first part of the Kazakh series explores the history of the Türk Empire 552-744 AD.
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2016 10:48:14 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 16:33:54 GMT -5
I can't seem to access this page. I have the same problem with the Blackgate links.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2016 2:24:01 GMT -5
Kazakh TV: Martial Arts of a Turkic world (In English)
Episode 2: The Oghuz tribes
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