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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mongols"”.
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Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance
Mongols in Northern China fear the end of a distinct cultural identity. Until the late 19th century, cultural differences between Mongols and Han could be seen through differences in each group's traditional way of life. Mongols were nomadic pastoralists. Han were sedentary farmers. Recent economic …
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Respect and power without resistance: investigations of interpersonal relations among the Deed Mongols
… part of this thesis concerns the Deed Mongols in Kok Nuur (Qinghai Sheng), a Tibetan province in the north west of China, where I conducted a twelve-month field study. Deed Mongols (population 80,000) reside in a unique cultural setting, amid three or four different cultures. Many share …
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… and maintain their control over the Jirim Mongols. Under the influence of European and Japanese language ideologies, the Qing Empire fostered the learning of Chinese in order to recreate the Jirim Mongols as modern nationals in an integrated China under a constitutional monarchy. Meanwhile, …
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The Latin principality of Antioch and its relationship with the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, 1188-1268
… followed his father-in-law by submitting to the Mongols in 1260. However, this had disastrous consequences as the Latin principality became a target for the Mamluks – the chief opponents of the Mongols in the Near East. Antiochene-Cilician relations were almost continuously shaped by the …
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Ak Jang in the context of Altai religious tradition
… religious and cultural tradition of Turks and Mongols and the modern tradition of Altaians and their cultural “siblings” – the heirs of the ancient Turkic-Mongolian culture.
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Tamga: a fiscal form in post-Mongol Moscow
… focus moves northwards to Rus’ – invaded by the Mongols in the 1230s and subjected to the suzerainty of the Jochid khans (‘Golden Horde’) – to explore how *tamga* was adopted by the increasingly powerful rulers of Moscow, and how that process is reflected in Muscovite exemption charters …
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An Experiment in Piety: The Three Domed Suhrawardy Tombs at Uchch Sharif
… and poets either escaping the onslaught of the Mongols in Central Asia during 13th century or seeking new patronage. Though enigmatic in their own right, the 14th-15th century monumental tombs of Bahā’ al-Halīm, Bibī Jiwindī, and Ustād Nuriyā at Uchch have not been the subject of any dedicated …
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Woven pleasure: continuity and change in Persian carpet making during the Ṣafavīd period
… the late 13th and early 14th centuries under the Mongols is indebted to Chinese elements, including blossoms, trees and shrubs, clouds and cloudbands, and animals known as “chinoiserie.” This evolution continued during the Tīmūrīd period in the 15th century. Since chinoiserie contributed to the …
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Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
… Construction’ policies among Xinjiang’s ‘Torghut Mongols’. It explores the complex social and political negotiations that transformed an officially recognized ‘epic’ (The Heroic Epic Jangar) as cultural product into the representative ‘culture’ of Mongol dominated Hoboksar County—but ‘culture’ …
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Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery
… Mindroling was razed to the ground by Dzungar Mongols in 1717. A female Buddhist expert joined forces with a former Mindroling student who had gone on to become the highest ranking Tibetan leader to reestablish the monastery. Mindroling thrived and became known as the "mother monastery" to an …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
… social, cultural, and religious aspects of the Mongols remain obscure, mostly due to a dearth of sources. Yet, the idea that no text survives from that ``dark period'' is false, because a large body of liturgical texts has been transmitted to our times – even if largely ignored by historians – …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than Orthodoxy with Muslims, Jews and Catholics being the most numerous – Muslims alone …