Peoples of central Asia.
Series: Indiana University publications
Publisher: Indiana University
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Ethnology -- Asia, Central.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [279]-303.
"American Council of Learned Societies. Research and studies in Uralic and Altaic languages. Project nos. 12 and 62."
Table of contents: title: Delimitation of the area. Soviet Central Asia -- Environment and culture -- Geographic regions of central Asia. Steppe zone. Virgin lands -- The zone of semidesert or desert-steppe -- The desert zone -- The mountain zone. Mountain settlement pattern -- The great valleys and oases -- Traditional economy -- Current economic development -- Communications. Railroads -- Canals -- Note on desert zone -- Languages. Linguistic classification of the peoples -- Altaic languages : genetic relations -- Turks of central Asia -- The Turkic languages : mutual comprehensibility -- Indo-European languages : genetic relations -- Standardization of language and establishment of literary languages -- Appendix. Classifications of Turkic languages -- Physical types -- Tadzhiks -- Mountain Tadzhiks -- Turkmens -- Kirgiz -- Uzbeks -- Kazakhs -- Karakalpaks -- Conclusions -- Introduction -- Proto-historical and early period -- Medieval period. The Mongol invasion -- Transition to modern period -- Modern period : Russian conquest. Local counter movements : wars and rebellions -- Summary of Russian territorial acquisitions -- Popular movements -- Central Asia in the last years of Tsarist rule -- Soviet period. Administrative structure -- Constitutional development -- Religions at the time of the Arabic conquest -- Islam -- Table of Islamic sects of central Asia -- Tsarist relations with central Asiatic Islam -- Table of synods -- Kazakh and Kirgiz religion -- General features of central Asian religion -- Christianity in central Asia -- Religion in central Asia in the current period -- Table of synods -- Family. Inheritance -- Marriage -- Size of family and household -- Table I. 1897 census : Households by oblast -- Society. Traditional society -- School of Radloff and Barthold -- Consanguinity and polity -- The village -- Soviet society -- Soviet interpretation of central Asian society -- Tsarist period. Census of 1897. Density of population -- Ethnic composition -- Sex and age composition -- XIX century general considerations -- Population down to the revolution. Total population size -- Ethnic composition -- Vital rates -- Rural-urban distribution -- Soviet period. Census of 1926. Administrative reorganization -- Ethnic classification and reclassification -- Migration -- Reproductive rates and fertility -- Rural-urban distribution -- Collectivization period, 1929-1933 -- Population trends by republic, 1926-1939. Ethnic composition and changes -- Rural and urban population trends 1926-1939 -- 1956 population -- 1959 census data -- Summary of urban and rural trends -- Soviet period : General considerations.