5 Ergebnisse.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- I. The Nature of Mongolian Poetry -- II. Distribution and Categories of Poetical Expression in the Erdeni-yin Tob?i -- III. Stratum A - "Lyric" Poetry -- IV. Stratum B - "Epic" Poetry -- V. Stratum C - Semi-Poetry -- Supplemental Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

The present collection of some eighty old Kalmyk-script notes and letters has lain almost unknown in the Moravian Unitas Fratrum (United Brethren) Archives for nearly 200 years. They are requests made to the young Isaac Schmidt (later to become the foremost scholar of Mongolian, but then manager of the general store in Sarepta), among the German colonists in Southern Russia amidst the Buddhist-Kalmyk herdsmen. The texts include simple goods or...