Kumis traditions of Steppe Eurasia: area of distribution, cultural memory and identity

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en Suraganova, Zubaida Kabievna

Сураганова, Зубайда Кабиевна

Title

Kumis traditions of Steppe Eurasia: area of distribution, cultural memory and identity

Alternative Title

Кумысные традиции степной Евразии: ареал распространения, культурная память и идентичность

Publication Type

Other Articles

Language

rus

Number of Pages

17

Location

Kazakhstan

Keywords

mare’s milk beverage

kumiss

airag

chigan

festive events

Relevance to ICH Safeguarding

identification

documentation

promotion

transmission

definition

ICH Genre

ecological knowledges and practices

food culture

Description

On the basis of the ancient and medieval written sources, epic heritage, ethnographic materials of the 19th-20th centuries, contemporary observations, the boundaries of the cultural area were determined, where the kumis traditions arose, developed and changed as a derivative of the horse breeding culture for more than two and a half thousand years. Ancient sources testify to the existence of mare‘s milk beverage as early as the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. The wonderful milkers of mares and Hippomolgian are mentioned in the Iliad of Homer, the papers of Herodotus, Hippocrates, Strabo, Theopompus. The territory of settlement of the ancient Hippomolgian includes a significant area of the Pontus Euxine, Thrace, Phrygia, Lydia, Sinope. The article outlines a variety of the names of mare‘s milk beverage distributed among the contemporary Turkic and Mongolian peoples. The sources involved show the loss of kumis traditions in the west of the steppe belt of Eurasia, including the Black Sea region and the Balkans. On the territory of North, Central Asia and Volga region, the kumis traditions not only retain their stability, but took on increasing importance in new forms of commemoration of the horse breeding culture.

Book/Journal Title

en Traditional rites as a manifestation of a remembering culture: resources and strategies of the symbolic capital of steppe Eurasia. Proceedings of the international conference

Дәстүрлі рәсімдер есте қаларлық мәдениеттің көрінісі ретінде: далалық Еуразияның символдық капиталының ресурстары мен стратегиялары

Publisher

Altyn kitap

Place of Publication

Astana, Kazakhstan

Date of Publication

2023

Pages

272-288

ISBN

978-9965-23-625-9

Academic Field

Cultural Studies

Nature protection

Contributor

Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Active Contribution

Kazakhstan, FY 2023