Someone needs to read my works about the mass hunting under socialism: " everyone hunted to survive. You would see cartloads of marmot skins, antlers and wolf parts in the market. Anything with four legs was sought out.”" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Ar Tsaidam/Aluchaideng crown came up on the Cursed App today. So let me share my 2022 thread on this amazing artifact associated with Iron Age nomads and the steppe. A skein/thread: dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/fisher/i... 1/n

2024: the Year of the Camel(ids)! www.fao.org/newsroom/det... Camelids include camels (Bactrian, dromedary, wild), llamas, alpacas, wild vicuñas, and guanacos. These animals are key to nomadic lifeways around the world. What's your favorite camelid? [Mine is easy to guess ] 1/n

🗓️🎁 5/24 La tente ronde, appelée ger et non yourte, est démontable. On superpose les couches de feutre sur un treillis, en laissant au sommet une ouverture à clapet, l'erüke. Les plus grandes ger ne se démontent pas et se transportent posées sur des charriots à boeufs.

Follow @chakarchinggis.bsky.social for a seasonal treat - an Advent calendar of Mongols depicted in Persian miniatures!

One good story. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

İlkhan Oljeitu's edict (jarlig) about taxation on the wall of Baku's friday mosque inside Içerişehir. Early 14th C.

TIL： The Chinese word for (indigo) blue, laam4 藍, might be related to Malay/Indonesian tarum (indigo) and Thai kraam คราม (indigo). According to Schuessler, it's an areal word from SEA that now exists in Sino-Tibetan, Kra-Dai, and Austronesian languages.

Link here for anyone who wants to attend book talk 2 online: 會議鏈結：https://asmeet.webex.com/asmeet/j.php?MTID=m88e940b4e3e807812b0b90a66173c50d 會議號：2514 324 0979 密 碼：pKMR8UKDY46

"The last of their kind: The unique life of Pakistan's Wakhi shepherdesses" www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Scholars Sue Byrne and Khulan Chimed recently published a three-book series focused on interviews with elderly Mongolian men who had been monks prior to the 1937-1939 purges: facebook.com/groups/mongo... 1/n

A watershed moment for Mongolian archaeology! Over 20,000 petroglyphs recently found in the south Gobi: isee.mn/n/57644 Highlighting four rock art discoveries from this archaeological survey in Ömnögov’ Province - a skein/thread 1/n

"Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian networks (7th-13th centuries)" Interdisciplinary volume edited by C. Meinert "offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history". Open access: brill.com/display/titl... Brill, 2015

“Karma Pakshi, the 2nd Karmapa: his life and his meditations advice” Charles Manson a librarian for the Tibetan collections at Bodleian Library & the British Library will speak in-person at The Buddhist Society on Nov. 25th. To attend online, visit: www.buddhistdoor.net/karma-pakshi...

The 10,000 Horses of the Steppe (Talyn Tümen Aduu/Талын Түмэн Адуу) 3-day festival finished yesterday in Batnorov County, Khentii Province, Mongolia. Not many photos from the 2023 festival are online yet, so please enjoy highlights from past Talyn Tümen Aduu! A skein/thread: 1/n

It is the day that Chinggis Khan's birth is traditionally celebrated. Why not celebrate by reading Chris Atwood's new translation of Secret History of the Mongols? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602666...

Tigers at Bichigtiin Am.    Two of the most remarkable petroglyphs in the Mongolian archaeological record.   The multiperiod rock art site Bichigtiin Am, Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia – a skein/thread   1/n

A herder boils milky tea (süütei tsai/сүүтэй цай) for breakfast while making otor* (отор) with his flock.    Ikh Bogd Uul (Их Богд Уул), Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia.   Image credit to Үзэсгэлэнт Баянхонгор on FB: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...   *So what is "making otor"?   1/n

Elite attire in the Mongol Empire: The aristocratic deel from the 13th-14th cent. cemetery at Bukhyn Khoshuu in Delgerkhaan County, Khentii Province, Mongolia. 1/n

Rare historical photo of two Mongolian caravanners (жинчид/jinchid) in 1901 with a Bactrian camel in Beijing. Photographed by S. Yamamoto. L: colorized R: black and white postcard version Image credits: facebook.com/boldbaatar.d...

MUSEUM OF THE MONTH: “Northern Dynasties’ Memories: The Story of the Jiuyuangang Painted Tomb” An online exhibit including 3D interactive reconstruction at Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology in Hangzhou, China: zjumaa.mused.org/en/stories/9... 1/n

Hi @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I am a big fan, and I normally would not do this, but my brother Jack has had medical bills pile up including from post-Covid issues that the insurance won't cover. If you wouldn't mind sharing this, it would mean the world to me. Thanks! gofund.me/e53052a5

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.

Before October 7th, over 60% of Palestinians were moderately or severely food insecure. It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.

Why we're protesting: The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the *annual* number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019.

While working on an article “Animal History of Mongolia” , I completely misread the instructions for their primary source section. Rather than letting it go to waste, I will share it here. Any suggestions, critiques, etc. are certainly welcome! www.kennethelinden.com/blog/discuss...

Great to see UBC MPPGA student E Gordillo Fuertes write in _The Diplomat_ about Ulaanbaatar's water crisis. thediplomat.com/2023/10/wate...

As an anthropologist I am humanly challenged by the cognitive dissonance of seeing atrocities—dead and severely injured children, flattened homes, genocidal priming by heads of state—alongside editorials and posts saying it’s ok to voice no opinion on this situation

The tradition of monumental sculpture in Mongolia is still going strong after three-plus millennia [Image source: twitter.com/paris_0531/s...

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION: "Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes" Dr. Carole Pegg's book examines "how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics...sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world". 1/n

hi Bluesky! @teenvogue.bsky.social I interviewed some of the young people coordinating an 100+ campus walkout in support of a ceasefire in Gaza today, including from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the anti-war group Dissenters. please read and share, was no small feat

Very excited about this upcoming conference organized by my UCLA colleagues! Reed, Brush, Chisel: Script, Literacy, & Writing Across Central and East Asia (400–1800)! 🖌️ Student bursaries are also available for those whose research would benefit from attending!🎉 emas.humspace.ucla.edu/reed-brush-c...

Two men look toward mountain peaks in the Caucasus by Vittorio Sella, 1896.

Who Wants to Be A Ram-illionaire? Let Nurbek Bekmurzaev guide you through the wild world of Arashan sheep in Kyrgyzstan, where the finest rams can command tens (and even hundreds) of thousands of dollars from prospective buyers: globalvoices.org/2023/10/18/m... 1/n

The left are wrong to claim these rings will “corrupt” us, and it’s time we finally stood up to critical wraith theory | my latest for the New Orc Times

The Tomb of a local Uyghur saint Imam Asim (near Hotan, Xinjiang), as it looked in 2011. In 2014 pilgrimages were banned; in 2019 the site was bulldozed (it was too Uyghur for the Communist Party). Here's a video from before the erasure; a sea of flags in the wind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHg...

MUSEUM OF THE MONTH: “Chinggis Khaan: How Mongols Changed the World” exhibition at the Nantes Museum of History The exhibit opened this weekend in France and will run until May 5th, 2024: www.chateaunantes.fr/en/expositio... 1/n

Kids these days! Baby goats (kids) peeking into a ger (mobile dwelling) in Mongolia. Image credit: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Photo essay on the reindeer herding Evenki indigenous to Siberia, Manchuria, and Mongolia.  In July 2022, Evenks from across Russia gathered on the banks of Lake Baikal during the Tungus congress: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Hope to see some of y'all at UChicago tomorrow!

You're welcome. In case of further interest, plugging in a more geopolitically tilted piece written by me 1 yr before the boy's revelation, which served as an inspiration to today's NYT article. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/the-battle-o...

“Writing poems, and waiting to be arrested”: renowned Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil discusses his poetry and experiences as a target of Chinese state surveillance and repression in his own words, with him from his memoir’s translator, Joshua Freeman: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's "Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire" (January 2024) will present "the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule": press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Félix Arnaudin, Gascon shepherds on stilts, Aquitaine, France, late 19th century

The colossal Tariatyn Am khirigsüür in western Central Mongolia! Khirigsüürs (хиригсүүрүүд, хиргисүүрүүд) are impressive stone monuments that date to the Late and Final Bronze ages of Mongolia (~1400-700 BCE). 1/n

Shout out to Marissa Smit for finding this fascinating 18th century North Indian portrait of Alan the Fair, the mythical ancestor of Chinggis Khan, who was impregnated by a golden man who descended from Heaven and left her ger in the form of a golden dog (wolf?) blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...