Russian Oriental Studies : : Current Research on Past & Present Asian and African Societies / / Vitaly Naumkin.

• VerfasserIn: Naumkin, Vitaly,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This collection of articles by leading Russian Orientalists, from different universities and research institutes of Russia, covers a wide range of research fields: politics and power, history, economics and society, language, philosophy and culture. The Russian authors base their works on rare sources. They examine here ancient and medieval history and culture of Oriental societies including articles on Indian mythology, kalam in Islam, classical Indonesian concepts of monarchy, Caucasus in the Abbasid period etc. There will also be a focus on modern Asian and African societies with articles on agriculture in India, monarchy in Cambodia, kleptocracy in Africa, Chinese migration to Siberia etc.). Furthermore in this volume, cultural vocabularies and sacred texts will be analysed. The volume will be useful for all academics and students interested in Asia and Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Part One: Politics and Power -- Nadezhda Bektimirova , Monarchy in the Khmer Political Culture -- Leonid V. Geveling , A Shadow of Kleptocracy over Africa (A Theory of Negative Forms of Power Organization) -- Part Two: History -- Alikber Alikberov , Islamic Frontiers in the Caucasus during the 'Abbasid period -- Gennadi G. Bandilenko , The Religious and Ideological Conception of Monarchical Power as an Object of Systematic Description (Concerning the Study of Nusantara Monarchies, the Seventh to Fifteenth Century A.D.) -- Irina M. Smilyanskaya , On the Origins of Catherine II's Mediterranean Policy -- Part Three: Economics and Society -- Vladimir I. Dyatlov , The Chinese Migration to Siberia and the Beginning of the Formation of a New Diaspora -- Victor G. Rastyannikov , Agricultural Growth in India. Some Burning Issues Towards the End of the Twentieth Century -- Part Four: Language -- Anna V. Dybo , On the History of Traditional Anthropometric Terms: Qarï and other Central Asian Linear Measures -- S.A. Starostin , The Cultural Vocabulary in the Common North Caucasian Lexical Stock -- Part Five: Philosophy and Culture -- Tawfik Ibrahim , On Kalām Atomism and its Role in Islamic Culture -- Dmitry V. Frolov , The Notion of Stone in the Book of Genesis -- Vladimir N. Toporov , Indra the Ant: A Comparative Commentary on a Motive of Ancient Indian Mythology -- Index.