The Processes of Sedentarization (the Question of the Dynamics of Transformations in the kalmyk Cattle)
https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2017-10-130-143
Abstract
The article attempts to establish a correlation between two processes: a decrease in the quantitative indices of the number of camels and sedenterization using the example of history and ethnography of the Kalmyks. The dynamics of the decrease in the number of camels from the Kalmyks during the 17th–20th centuries. directly reflects the ongoing social, economic and political transformations. The author comes to the conclusion that the number (and the very presence in the household) of Kalmyks of this kind of transport animals, like a camel, is a marker and an indicator of the processes of saddentization, which began from the first third of the eighteenth century, transformation and adaptation to the changing conditions of life at the end of XIX — the beginning of XX centuries.
About the Author
S. Tyukhteneva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (Elista, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph. D. of History, Leading Scientist of the History, Archeology and Ethnology Department
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Tyukhteneva S. The Processes of Sedentarization (the Question of the Dynamics of Transformations in the kalmyk Cattle). Mongolian Studies. 2017;9(1):130-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2017-10-130-143
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