Research Catalog

Title

Material culture, language and religion of Central and Inner Asia / edited by Michael Gervers, Gillian Long.

Author

Central and Inner Asian Seminar (2008 : University of Toronto)

Publication

Toronto : Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Long, Gillian
• Gervers, Michael, 1942-
• University of Toronto. Asian Institute
• Central Eurasian Studies Society
• Central Eurasian Studies Conference (2009 : University of Toronto)

Description

x, 262 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 22 cm.

Series Statement

Toronto studies in Central and Inner Asia ; no. 10

Uniform Title

Toronto studies in Central and Inner Asia no. 10.

Subject

• Asia, Central > Civilization > Congresses
• Asia, Central > Languages > Congresses
• Asia, Central > Religion > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "The volume includes papers originally presented at the Univesity of Toronto during the Central and Inner Asia Conference in May 2008 and the Central Eurasian Study Society Conferernce in October 2009"--Title page.
• "This volume is the tenth in a series composed mostly of papers presented during the annual conferenes of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS) at the University of Toronto"--Foreward.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

History. Edessa: a holy city in the Muslim-Crusader conflict / Ghada Jayussi-Lehn -- Art history. "The great deliverer, the righteous, the just, the autocrat, the god, worthy of worship: Kanishka the Great, Kushan dynastic religion, and Buddhism / Craig Benjamin -- Gandharan Buddhist reliquaries--an art historical survey of types / David Jongeward -- Animals and decorative arts: zoomorphic imagery and biographical objects among the Pazyryk of the Altai / Kenneth Lymer --Domestic life. Form and space in the nomadic tent / Stephanie Bunn -- Women's place in the material culture, language and religion of Baltistan / Farida Hewitt -- Language and literature. Legends and landslides: societies adapted to catastrophic landforms / Kenneth Hewitt -- Survival of spiritual life: religious poetry in the Central Asian Ismaili Muslim tradition / Mir Baiz Khan -- Authorizing origins and civilizing texts: some notes on genealogy and embodiment in late Mongolian Tibetan-language historiography / Mathew William King -- The Chalkandu: ethnological description and a first glimpse at their subordinate clause construction / Monika Rind-Pawlowski -- "Love one another my people": politics and poetry in the work of Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar (1957-1999) / Simon Wickham-Smith -- Politics and pastoralism. From pastoral nomadism to shuttle trading: a long view of modernity and commerce along the Sino-Central Asian border / Hasan H. Karrar -- Restraining the nomads: the politics of reterritorialization in Mongolia under Manchu colonization (1650s to 1911) / Orhon Myadar -- Ablai: Kazakhstan's Public Diplomacy Project / Saulesh Yessenova.

ISBN

• 0772776040
• 9780772776044

OCLC

• 862958336
• SCSB-10774031

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library