The View of the Environment as Seen through the Altaic Languages in China

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures X
4. Preface XIII
5. Language and Style of the 18^th-Century Tatar Seyahatname 1
6. Japanese Nature and Japanese Language 5
7. Khakas Identity in the Period of Post-Soviet Reforms 11
8. The Rylands Manuscript: The First Translation of the Koran into Turkic 14
9. “Do Not Disturb My Ponds and Lakes, Do Not Injure My Swans.” A Human Ecological Approach to Mongolian Shamanic Texts 24
10. The Tungusic Plant Names in Primitiae Florae Amurensis, Versuch einer Flora des Amurlandes by Carl Joh. Maximowicz 37
11. Interrelation of Nature and Man in the Spiritual Tradition of the Mongols 48
12. Traces of Shamanism in the Beliefs of Turkish Cypriots 52
13. Nature in the Vocabulary of Turkish Folk Songs: Asik Veysel and Muharrem Ertas 57
14. The Known World and Beyond: Concepts of the Animal Kingdom as Presented in the Pentaglot 67
15. Sacred Elements of Nature in the Faith of the Altai Turks 75
16. The View of the Environment as Seen through the Altaic Languages in China 81
17. The Sacred Ötükän Forest. Natural, Commercial, and Sacral Features of a Holy Place 91
18. К древнейшим самодийско-тунгусским лексическим связям (названия животных) 99
19. Folk Taxonomy of Japanese Birds 116
20. V. K. Arsen’ev’s Studies of Oroch and Udege 140
21. Cataloguing the Manuscripts in the Library of the Türkiyat Arastırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul) 146
22. The Use of Rhubarb among the Mongols 152
23. Tradition, Man, and Nature at the Inception of the Modern Turkish Story 173
24. Der Sippenbaum im Buch der Dschingis-Legende 179
25. A Lake and Two Poems, or Two Different Views of “Göygöl” 192
26. The Landscape in the Old Turkic Runic Inscriptions 205
27. Mensch und Natur in Dede Korkut-Geschichten 208
28. “Washing Blood with Water”: The Life of the Huihe Khan Dunmohe (8^th Century) 214
29. Plants and Their Naming in Manchu, Mongolian, and Japanese 222
30. Death by Animal 233
31. The Manchu Empire in World History – A New Approach 240
32. Parallel Texts in Saγang’s Erdeni-yin Tobči and Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin’s Altan Tobči 249
33. The Changbaishan According to Travellers’ Accounts 255
34. XIX. Yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatında Tabiat 261
35. Mongols and Nature: Traditions as Reflected in Mongolian Sources, and Substitute Language 266
36. The Contribution of Deported Peoples to the Economy of Uzbekistan 275
37. The Cult of the Sun and the Moon in Mongolian Written Sources 283
38. Between the Supernatural and the Natural: Aspects of Religious Beliefs among the Azerbaijani Turks 299
39. Экологическое сознание азербайджанских тюрков: к постановке вопроса 313
40. “Natur” in Kaiser Kangxi’s Gedichten über die Sommerresidenz in Jehol (Mandschurische Fassung) 322
41. Deer and Man in a Darkhat Legend and Their Ethnogenetic Connections 349
42. Concepts of the Soul in Tuva: A Philosophical Approach 360
43. Die Tuwiner von Cengel und die Natur – im Alltag und in ihrer Dichtung 377
44. Der Pelikan nicht nur in der altaischen Welt 389
45. Qariš, a Unit of Measurement in Turkic Languages 399
46. Some Religious Terms in Qarakhanid Turkic 404
47. On the Common Altaic Verbs *ba-~*bi- and *a:-~*e: Related Thinking of Altaic-Speaking People 415
48. A Polish Account of the Buriats in the Middle of the 19^th Century (From Agaton Giller’s Memoirs) 432
49. Rituals and Beliefs Related to Celestial Phenomena: Eclipse, Thunderbolt, and Rainbow 448
50. War and Nature in Anatolia During the Seljuk Period 457
51. Nature in Manchu Pictorial Art and the Natural History of Manchuria 465
52. “Tatar musk” 479