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Kazakh traditions of China / Awelkhan Hali, Zengxiang Li, Karl W. Luckert.
LIBRA DS731.K38 H35 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hali, Awelkhan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kazakhs--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--History.
- Kazakhs.
- Kazakhs--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).
- China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 235 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1998]
- Contents:
- Photographic Glimpses 3
- Chapter 1 From Waves of Tribes and Nations 19
- Chapter 2 Spoken Blessings 47
- Chapter 3 A World to Sing About 55
- Chapter 4 Birth and Childhood 77
- Chapter 5 The Poetry of Marriage 91
- Chapter 6 Marriage in the Epics 129
- Chapter 7 Fasting and Faith 153
- Chapter 8 The Legacy of Ancient Shamism 165
- Chapter 9 In the Dimension of Time 179
- Chapter 10 Death and Mourning 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761809554
- 0761809562
- OCLC:
- 37705292
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