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The Black Master: Essays on Central Eurasia in Honor of Gyorgy Kara on His 70th Birthday
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ISBN10: 3447051868
ISBN13: 9783447051866
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 164
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783447051866
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 164
Language: English
The Black Master is a Festschrift with 16 papers written by colleagues or former students of Professor Gyorgy Kara, including some of the most renowned scholars in the field. The themes of the articles reflect the wide scope of Gyorgi Kara's research, with texts on Central Eurasian linguistics, history or ethnology. A list of his publications completes the volume. From the table of contents (17 contributions): C. Atwood, Poems of Fraternity: Literary Responses to the Attempted Reunification of Inner Mongolia and the Mongolian's People Republic B. Baumann, Nakshatra Astrology in Antoine Mostaert's Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination A. Birtalan, An Invocation to Dayan Derx Collected from a Darkhad Shaman's Descendant M. Dobrovits, The Tolis and the Tardus in Old Turkic Inscriptions J. Elverskog, Sagang Sechen on the Qing Conquest J. Janhunen, On the Development of the Sibilant System of Qinghai Bonan M. Kiripolska, A Few Remarks on Some Mongolian Texts in Stockholm R. I. Meserve, The Snowcocks of Central Asia and Mongolia D. Prior, Tonyuquq's Humiliation and an Old Turkic Etymology A. Rona-Tas, Turko-Mongolian Etymologies: Turkic yarp V. Rybatzki, Personal Names and Titles of the Naiman in the Secret History of the Mongols Y. Saito, On the Word in West Middle Mongolian A. Sarkozi, Proper Names in the First Chapter of the Mongolian Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra A.G. Sazykin, Mongolian Xylographs in St. Petersburg's Collections
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