Expressions of Gender in the Altaic World : : Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Kocaeli, Turkey, July 7-12, 2013 / / ed. by Münevver Tekcan, Oliver Corff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Anayban, Zoya,; Badmaeva, Liubov’ D.,; Bell, Christine,; Boykova, Elena,; Campi, Alicia,; Corff, Oliver,; Dugarov, Bair,; Dugarova, Esuna,; Finch, Roger,; Ge, Liu,; Girfanova, Albina,; Gülbeyaz, Abdurrahman,; Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara,; Kubo, Satoshi,; Legrand, Jacques,; Péri, Benedek,; Sabernig, Katharina,; Stary, Giovanni,; Szálkai, Kinga,; Tekcan, Münevver,; Tohti, Litip,; Walravens, Hartmut,; Şahin, Serpil Yazıcı Ş,
• HerausgeberIn: Corff, Oliver,; Tekcan, Münevver,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 237 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Gender Aspects of Adaption to Contemporary Socioeconomic Conditions in Southern Siberia --; Feminine Designations in the Buryat Language --; Ceremonial Attire of the Oracle Priest Sungma Balung chö je --; The General and Gender Factor in the Upbringing of Children in Mongolia --; Historical to Contemporary Mongolian Experience with Female Political Activism --; Gender, Sex and Symmetry: Matters and Modes of Expression in an 18th Century Multilingual Dictionary --; The Image of Alan-goa — the Foremother of Genghis Khan --; Gender Distinctions in Nouns and Pronouns of the Altaic Languages --; Gender Features of the Kinship System and Terminology Among the Udeghe --; The Universal and the Language-Specific in the Construction of Gender: A Comparative Semiotic Study --; Women in Abu l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan’s Shajara-i Turk --; Language that soils and injures ‘namus’: Reading and comprehending ‘namus’ as a speech act --; Is Language “Gender” Related With “Sex”? (The Case of Mongolian, a Language without Gender) --; Turpan Non-free Women in the Perspective of Addressing Female Slaves in the Era of the Mongol and Yuan Dynasty (Research on Uyghur documents Unearthed in Turpan) --; The Gender of the Beloved in One of Bayrâm Khan’s Chaghatay Gazels --; Gender Related Symptoms in Tibetan Medical Practice --; Terms of Female Kinship in Modern Uighur and Uzbek --; Male Name-giving Principles of the Sibe People in Xinjiang --; Women and Soviet Acculturation in Central Asia before the Second World War --; Gender Projection/Perception in the Babur-nāma --; Gender Expressions in Uyghur --; Sexual life of the Manchus — Literary Sources
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110748789; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110748789
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Münevver Tekcan, Oliver Corff.

This collection of papers explores the facets of gender and sex in history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC. It examines the position of women in contemporary Central Asia at large, the expression of gender in linguistic terms in Mongolian, Manju, Tibetan and Turkic languages, and gender aspects presented in historical literary monuments as well as in contemporary sources.