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

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 sourc...

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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.
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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.