Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Language and Style of the 18th-Century Tatar Seyahatname -- Japanese Nature and Japanese Language -- Khakas Identity in the Period of Post-Soviet Reforms -- The Rylands Manuscript: The First Translation of the Koran into Turkic -- “Do Not Disturb My Ponds and Lakes, Do Not Injure My Swans.” A Human Ecological Approach to Mongolian Shamanic Texts -- The Tungusic Plant Names in Primitiae Florae Amurensis, Versuch einer Flora des Amurlandes by Carl Joh. Maximowicz -- Interrelation of Nature and Man in the Spiritual Tradition of the Mongols -- Traces of Shamanism in the Beliefs of Turkish Cypriots -- Nature in the Vocabulary of Turkish Folk Songs: Asik Veysel and Muharrem Ertas -- The Known World and Beyond: Concepts of the Animal Kingdom as Presented in the Pentaglot -- Sacred Elements of Nature in the Faith of the Altai Turks -- The View of the Environment as Seen through the Altaic Languages in China -- The Sacred Ötükän Forest. Natural, Commercial, and Sacral Features of a Holy Place -- К древнейшим самодийско-тунгусским лексическим связям (названия животных) -- Folk Taxonomy of Japanese Birds -- V. K. Arsen’ev’s Studies of Oroch and Udege -- Cataloguing the Manuscripts in the Library of the Türkiyat Arastırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul) -- The Use of Rhubarb among the Mongols -- Tradition, Man, and Nature at the Inception of the Modern Turkish Story -- Der Sippenbaum im Buch der Dschingis-Legende -- A Lake and Two Poems, or Two Different Views of “Göygöl” -- The Landscape in the Old Turkic Runic Inscriptions -- Mensch und Natur in Dede Korkut-Geschichten -- “Washing Blood with Water”: The Life of the Huihe Khan Dunmohe (8th Century) -- Plants and Their Naming in Manchu, Mongolian, and Japanese -- Death by Animal -- The Manchu Empire in World History – A New Approach -- Parallel Texts in Saγang’s Erdeni-yin Tobči and Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin’s Altan Tobči -- The Changbaishan According to Travellers’ Accounts -- XIX. Yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatında Tabiat -- Mongols and Nature: Traditions as Reflected in Mongolian Sources, and Substitute Language -- The Contribution of Deported Peoples to the Economy of Uzbekistan -- The Cult of the Sun and the Moon in Mongolian Written Sources -- Between the Supernatural and the Natural: Aspects of Religious Beliefs among the Azerbaijani Turks -- Экологическое сознание азербайджанских тюрков: к постановке вопроса -- “Natur” in Kaiser Kangxi’s Gedichten über die Sommerresidenz in Jehol (Mandschurische Fassung) -- Deer and Man in a Darkhat Legend and Their Ethnogenetic Connections -- Concepts of the Soul in Tuva: A Philosophical Approach -- Die Tuwiner von Cengel und die Natur – im Alltag und in ihrer Dichtung -- Der Pelikan nicht nur in der altaischen Welt -- Qariš, a Unit of Measurement in Turkic Languages -- Some Religious Terms in Qarakhanid Turkic -- On the Common Altaic Verbs *ba-~*bi- and *a:-~*e: Related Thinking of Altaic-Speaking People -- A Polish Account of the Buriats in the Middle of the 19th Century (From Agaton Giller’s Memoirs) -- Rituals and Beliefs Related to Celestial Phenomena: Eclipse, Thunderbolt, and Rainbow -- War and Nature in Anatolia During the Seljuk Period -- Nature in Manchu Pictorial Art and the Natural History of Manchuria -- “Tatar musk”

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Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006.

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