Notes on the question of account of time in Central Asia

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en Kolganova, Galina Yur'evna

en Nikiforov, Mikhail Gennad'evich

Колганова, Галина Юрьевна

Никифоров, Михаил Геннадьевич

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

en Oriens

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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