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Economic and environmental background of linguo-religious complexes and past Turkification of Central Asia
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | This paper explains systematic mutual connections and multidisciplinary aspects in the development of complex societies in Central Asia. The core of the paper follows own new theoretical concept of linguo-religious complexes (LRCs) interconnecting Central Asian philology, study of religions, history, economics and environmental issues. In the first part, the paper explains the concept of LRCs and provides a very short description of mutual connections between functional sides of language (communication) and religion (regulation of social processes). The second part documents historical cases of replacements of religious systems among Central Asian people – mainly Turkic conversion to Manichaeism, and early spread of Buddhism and Islam in the first millennium AD. The third part describes economic connections and pragmatical motivations behind these exchanges conditioned by social structure and migration patterns in tributary relations. The fourth part presents environmental case study from contemporary Turko-Mongolian pastoral area in West Mongolian Altai. This section is focused on the spread of Buddhism to this area, social esteem to numerous offspring and use of religious symbolism in non-religious context. The fifth part is using mentioned LRCs framework for documentation of past Turkification of Central Asia. For this purpose, a wide set of onomastic material from early manuscripts of non-Turkic languages including Chinese, Tocharian and other Indo-European languages of the Tarim Basin is collected and further supported by the data from travelogues of Chinese and Korean Buddhist monks. These datasets help to interrelate circumstances of the spread of Turkic languages with long-term environmental changes what can be observed on oscillating size of population in historical archaeological complexes in wide zone from Caspian Sea in the West to South Siberian and Mongolian steppes and the Tarim Basin in the East. In its full extent, the paper describes changing population and cultural dynamics in Central Asia viewed through the lens of LRCs. |
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