| ID | 128489 |
| Title Proper | N.F. Katanov's ethnographic investigations in Eastern Turkestan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Khovalyg, U. T |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | By order of Russian Geographic Society and Russian Academy of Science, 'N. F. Katanov was preparing for the ethnographic and linguistic investigations in South Siberia, Kazakhstan and Eastern Turkestan. In December 1888 he visited a key region of the Yenisei, Uryankhai region for his research of the Tuvinians' (the Uryankhais and Soyons') language and culture, where he stayed till autumn of 1889. From there he went to the regions of rivers Agul, Biryusa and Uda to the Karagas people. There he had been working till April 1890. Later, the texts collected there were publishedl. From the Karagas people N. F. Katanov continued his travel to Semirechye, then in summer 1890 through Chuguchak to Urumchi, to the residency of a governor of Eastern Turkestan. He spent his winter and the beginning of 1891 in Tarbagatai, where having received emperor's letter from Beijing he started to travel around Gansu-Xinjiang again and got to Myao-orl-du (High monastery) which was situated a little bit more eastern from Komul. In March 1892 he hit the road from Komul to Turfan, from where he went through Urumchi, Gulja and through Semirechye again to Minusinsk from where he returned to Saint~Petersburg in December 1892. In Semirechye and Tarbagatai, Katanov researched the language and customs of the Kazakhs from kins kerei, argyn, naiman and Sarat citizens and in Chinese Turkestan he studied the language and traditions of the local Uygursz. In Germany there is some part of ethnographic and linguistic material which was collected by professor N. F. Katanov from the population of north-eastern part of Eastern Turkestan, whidi was famous in the written sources before as Uiguristan (country of the Uygurs). |
| `In' analytical Note | Himalayan and Central Asian Studies Vol.17, No.2; April-June 2013: p.76-80 |
| Journal Source | Himalayan and Central Asian Studies Vol.17, No.2; April-June 2013: p.76-80 |
| Key Words | Nickolay Fyodorovich Katanov - Russian Philosopher ; Ethnographic Investigation ; Russia ; History ; Russian History ; Russian Geographic Society ; Russian Philosophy ; Ethnographic Material ; Linguistic Material ; Eastern Turkestan ; Europe ; Central Asia ; Eurasia ; Linguistic Studies |