Notes on the question of account of time in Central Asia
| Author(s) | Kolganova, Galina Yur'evna en Nikiforov, Mikhail Gennad'evich en Колганова, Галина Юрьевна Никифоров, Михаил Геннадьевич |
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| Title | Notes on the question of account of time in Central Asia |
| Alternative Title | К вопросу о счёте времени в Средней Азии |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Language | rus |
| Number of Pages | 11 |
| Location | Russia |
| Keywords | Central Asia lunar calendar lunar-stellar calendar |
| Relevance to ICH Safeguarding | identification documentation definition |
| ICH Genre | social practices rituals ecological knowledges and practices |
| Description | The paper investigates the calendar and astronomical representations of Kirghiz-Cossacks, Uzbeks, and mountain Tajiks. All these people used the lunar-stellar calendar. This calendar calculates the duration of the month by observing the conjunctions of the moon with the pleiades. The authors argue that the lunar-stellar calendar has the same precision as the lunar-solar calendar, although both calendars were uncomfortable for agriculturalists because the beginning of the year corresponded to the different dates of the solar calendar. Among all the mentioned peoples, the lunar-stellar calendar, worst of all, has been preserved in the Pamir Mountains. Therefore, it was presumably invented by nomadic pastoralists. |
| Book/Journal Title | Oriens en Восток |
| Publisher | Institute of Oriental Studies |
| Place of Publication | Moscow, Russia |
| Date of Publication | 2016 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 6-16 |
| ISSN | 0869-1908 |
| Academic Field | Cultural Studies |
| Community/Ethnic Group | Kazakhstan |
| Contributor | Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage |
| Active Contribution | Kazakhstan, FY 2023 |
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