Felt and “Tent Carts” in The Secret History of the Mongols

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ID11865327
AutoresMichael Gervers (0000-0003-2381-7964, autor correspondente), Wayne Schlepp, Wayne A Schlepp
Ano1997
Volume7
Fascículo1
Páginas93-116
Data de publicação1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1356186300008336
OpenAlexW2076803066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas21

In the final chapter of his novel, The First Circle , Alexander Solzhenitsyn extols the virtues of the felt boot: “A pair of felt boots are the two best friends a prisoner will ever have ... Woe then to anyone whose feet are not shod in felt boots! ... But the prisoner wearing his own felt boots has not a care in the world.” Solzhenitsyn writes for those unfamiliar with the extremes faced by the society he is describing. Similarly, but far removed in time, we are accustomed to learning a great deal more about the uses of felt among nomadic peoples from travellers who have purportedly visited them than we do from such rare accounts as The Secret History of the Mongols ( SH ) which emanate from sources close to the nomads themselves

Aesthetics · Art · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution