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Newsletter of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
P I A C Newsletter of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference No. 27 October 2002 hanks to the initiative and competence of Jill Zai, after an interruption of three years a new issue, in a new garb of this Newsletter is presented to the the PIAC membership. Of course the Ttitle Newsletter is a misnomer because in fact, the raison d'etre of this erratic publication is to keep record of our activities. I think and hope that this issue satisfies this requirement. Contents... General Background In the last twelve months or so, as a partial result of the Information to the political fall-out of the terrorist attacks on New York City and PIAC 2 Washington, public interest in Central Asia has increased Indiana University Prize for dramatically. Websites, ephemeral periodicals, discussion-groups, Altaic Studies (PIAC Medal) 4 conferences dealing with the region multiply, and the terms of Past PIAC Proceedings 5 “Eurasia,” “Central Eurasia,” “Central Asia” have become almost Remembering Dick Howell 8 household words. For scholars, of which the membership of the PIAC is composed, this is a welcome change, first and foremost In Memory- Nikolaj Alexandrovich Baskakov by because contacts with local scholars and institutions of countries Edward Tryjarski 8 belonging to the former Soviet Union have become easy. Mainly in Some Notes on Central Eurasian the field of archeology important collaborative projects are under Studies by H. Walravens 10 way and - thanks to the exchange of language teachers - at least in Bibliography of Mongol the U.S., the acquisition of language competence in almost any Studies written by Turkic language has been greatly facilitated. -
The Present State of the Mongolian Epic and Some Topics for Future Research
Oral Tradition 11/1 (1996): 85-98 The Present State of the Mongolian Epic and Some Topics for Future Research Walther Heissig In the March 1993 issue of the bulletin Folklore Fellows Network Lauri Honko raised the question: “What is an epic?” As a small contribution of my own I shall confine myself here to the question of what we know about the recent state of the Mongolian epic (Bawden 1980). Had it not been for the intensive and praiseworthy collection of the first Mongolian epic by Russian and Finnish scholars during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the present century, we might not have reached the present stage in this branch of literary research. Through their recording projects, these scholars demonstrated the existence and dominance of the Mongolian epic.1 Considering that practically all Mongolian literary productions believed to belong to the category of epic have been transmitted orally, the number of epics recorded in writing or on tape is rather large. All the texts have been preserved in writing either by researchers or, as is very often the case, by Mongol scribes. The classical case here is Burdukova and his scribe (1966). This method implied a certain “dictation” by the singer himself in which the text lost some of the spontaneity of its immediate presentation. A. B. Lord and Milman Parry have already made some reservations about these shortcomings. The use by Mongol scholars of a hurriedly written “shorthand Mongol” served the preservation of the spontaneous diction of the singer far better; this is evident in the notes made by, for instance, P. -
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, Acquired and Augmented by the Reverend Dr Heinrich Walther Gerdes, Now Preserved in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Enlighten The Bayer Collection A preliminary catalogue of the manuscripts and books of Professor Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, acquired and augmented by the Reverend Dr Heinrich Walther Gerdes, now preserved in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow David Weston University of Glasgow 2018 1 Version 1.0 Published on the tercentenary of Dr William Hunter’s birth 2 1. Introduction 7 2. Chronology 13 3. Catalogue of manuscripts 17 1. Mss Hunter 2. Mss Hunter B/A-E 95 4. Palm-Leaf books and other pothi format books (PL) 185 5. Chinese and Manchu books (HC) 196 6. European printed works (PB) 229 7. Name Index 239 3 Acknowledgements In compiling this catalogue I have benefitted from the generous support and assistance of the following individuals whose insights and contributions, where relevant, are noted throughout the text: Prof. Kirill Alekseev, Peter Asplin, Prof. Charles Bawden†, Prof. Zheng Cheng, Dr Yupin Chung, Michelle Craig, Kenneth Gardner†, Prof. Walther Heissig†, Sarah Hepworth, Prof. Florence Hsia, Yuen Kwan Humble, Craig Jamieson, Dr Betty Knott- Sharpe, John Okell, Dr Stephen McDowall, Dr David McOmish, Charles Manson, Fiona Neale, Prof. Nicholas Pearce, Tong Shenxiao. In addition, I owe a special debt of gratitude to two people in particular. The former is Professor Knud Lundbaek, (1912-1995) who, many years ago now, suggested that I undertake a catalogue of all the Bayeriana at Glasgow. The second is Jack Baldwin, former Keeper of Special Collections, who appointed me to his department back in 1979, and whose constant encouragement and critical judgement have been invaluable. -
Piac Newsletter
z PIAC PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ALTAISTIC CONFERENCE NEWSLETTER b No. 13 May 1982 THOUGHTS ON A SILVER JUBILEE Indiana At the outset, I must confess, I should not have thought that the PIAC would survive for a quarter of a Century. At its birth - during the 24th International Congress of Orientalists Bloomington, in Munich - I did not think there was a need for yet another Orientalist Organization and supported the idea out of friendship for the proponents of the plan, Annemarie von Gabain, Walther University, Heissig, Omeljan Pritsak. Time has shown that I was wrong. If the PIAC could survive and prosper it was due partly to a propiti- ous Start. It had the support of that organizational genius, Indiana of Helmuth Scheel (1895-1967). Thanks to him, the resources of his brainchild, the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, were made accessible to the fledgling PIAC. The Akademie housed our first two meetings which set the pattern of our Department future deliberations. To the best of my knowledge, the PIAC's indebtedness to Helmuth Scheel has never been publicly acknow- Alfaic ledged; it is meet and proper for this to be done at a time when we celebrate our silver jubilee. and The PIAC is, of course, deeply international. Yet, born in the German Federal Republic, where the first three, and a total Uralic of five, of our meetings were held, the PIAC carries within its the tradition a strong German - should I say "Rhineland"? - component. in The personality of our first Secretary General, Walther Heissig - settled if not born in that beautiful part of the world - further PIAC deepened this imprint and was instrumental in creating the happy, the informal atmosphere which, with very few exceptions, character- of ized the PIAC's proceedings.