This essay will attempt a broad outline of the strategies of State employed in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The nomadic population there is organized into kinship groups, or corporated groups called qabâ'il (sing. qabîla) or ‘tribes.’ —even if the ‘tribe’ is not a ‘total society’, but —as Emanuel Marx suggest (in this volume)—“it is merely one of a variety of organizations in which the n...

Archaeological research reveals the special role of image animals in worldview and religious beliefs nomadic tribes inhabiting Eurasian continent. For a specific purpose, ancient inhabitants made vessels with images intended for everyday life or rites. When researching monuments sedentary tribes, cauldrons zoomorphic handles, swords, daggers handles are increasingly found. Unfortunately, their ...

In Late Antiquity Arabia, under the Byzantine and Sassanid states, there are many decentralized nomadic or sedentary tribal political structures in addition to centralized organizations. There constant conflicts wars between tribes. reasons for their such as booty, blood feud, revenge, border violations. All these relative multiplicity of show that inter-tribal a form life pre-Islamic period. T...

IN a recent article relating to early nineteenth-century Bible translation and printing in Mongolian, Professor Bawden mentions in the text of his article and again in a footnote,' a medical handbook translated from Russian into Kalmuck which was published in 1823. This book is now in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The Kalmuck tribes constituted one of the ma...

This article examines the phenomenon of settled and nomadic culture symbiosis, a distinctive feature ancient Tanais – one eminent centres Bosporan kingdom. The authors analyses peculiarities intercultural interaction between Hellenic population tribes Don region Sarmatians Meots in this particular geocultural region. Moreover, research is devoted to main attributes Outstanding Universal Value b...

The article analyzes the formation of Turkic political elite, their features and position in complex large-scale management system Golden Horde.The administrative structure Horde had its own characteristics comparison with all states that emerged after collapse Mongol Empire. Including active role nomadic Turkic-Mongolian aristocrats administration social life, was reflected ranks military aris...

AIM The aim of the study was to document the indigenous ethno-botanical knowledge of the transhumant nomads of Mustang, Nepal, a representative settlement in the Himalayan highland. METHODOLOGY A study was carried out during a direct field visit to collect plants, consisting of a semi-structured questionnaire and personal interviews. Both fresh and dried herbs, plants parts, and fungus were c...

Written sources of the early Middle Ages recorded several dozen ethnonyms steppe tribes, attributed by historians to peoples Hunno–Bulgar circle. This diversity creates certain problems with identifying individual determining their localization, and analyzing chronology movements. Questions arise as how these correlated each other large nomadic empires. The main attention author was drawn a gro...