The Black Master

Essays on Central Eurasia in Honor of György Kara on his 70th Birthday. Edited by Stéphane Grivelet, Ruth I. Meserve, Àgnes Birtalan and Giovanni Stary. The themes of the articles reflect the wide scope of Györgi Kara’s research, with texts on Central Eurasian linguistics, history or ethnology. 17 contributions, including: C. Atwood: Poems of Fraternity. Literary Responses to the Attempted Reunification of Inner Mongolia and the Mongolian's People Republic. - B. Baumann: "Nakshatra Astrology" in Antoine Mostaert's Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination. - Á. Birtalan: An Invocation to Dayan Derx Collected from a Darkhad Shaman’s Descendant. - M. Dobrovits: The Tölis and the Tardus in Old Turkic Inscriptions. - J. Elverskog: Sagang Sechen on the Qing Conquest. - J. Janhunen: On the Development of the Sibilant System of Qinghai Bonan. - M. Kiripolská: A Few Remarks on Some Mongolian Texts in Stockholm. - R. I. Meserve: The Snowcocks of Central Asia and Mongolia. - D. Prior: Tonyuquq's Humiliation and an Old Turkic Etymology. - A. Róna-Tas: Turko-Mongolian Etymologies. Turkic yarp. - V. Rybatzki: Personal Names and Titles of the Naiman in the Secret History of the Mongols. - Y. Saitô: On the Word in West Middle Mongolian. - A. Sárközi: Proper Names in the First Chapter of the Mongolian Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra. - A.G. Sazykin: Mongolian Xylographs in St. Petersburg's Collections. 164 Seiten, gebunden (Harrassowitz Verlag 2005)