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Kazakh Traditions of China
Hali, Awelkhan; Li, Zengxiang; Luckert, Karl W.
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Description for Kazakh Traditions of China
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 335.
This book provides a window to the life and culture of the Kazakh people who live in China. The work summarizes Kazakh political history, social organization, ethnographical aspects of nomadism, linguistics, and Chinese national policy. To this array of information, the book brings humanity and cultural depth, revealing how Kazakhs bless and obliquely curse, and how they experience life's joys and sorrows together with the fate and the work they share. We learn about their wedding customs and their poetry of marriage; about their involvement with the religion of Islam, and about their enduring habit of occasionally having recourse to ... Read more
This book provides a window to the life and culture of the Kazakh people who live in China. The work summarizes Kazakh political history, social organization, ethnographical aspects of nomadism, linguistics, and Chinese national policy. To this array of information, the book brings humanity and cultural depth, revealing how Kazakhs bless and obliquely curse, and how they experience life's joys and sorrows together with the fate and the work they share. We learn about their wedding customs and their poetry of marriage; about their involvement with the religion of Islam, and about their enduring habit of occasionally having recourse to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761809562
SKU
V9780761809562
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Ref
99-15
About Hali, Awelkhan; Li, Zengxiang; Luckert, Karl W.
Awelkhan Hali is Professor of Folk Literature in China. Zengxiang Li is Professor of Turkic Languages at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, China. Karl W. Luckert is Professor in History of Religions at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
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