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@proceedings{2364237,
author = {Schwarz, Michal and Srba, Ondřej},
booktitle = {From Athens to Samarqand Spatial Perception in Antiquity from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Taklamakan Desert. 20 th Melammu workshop. Innsbruck, January 17 19 2024.},
keywords = {spatial understanding;centers and peripheries;cardinal points;altitude;Taklamakan Desert;Tocharian;Altai Uriarkhais;Zakhchins;Mongolia;Inner Asia},
language = {eng},
title = {Changing understanding of spatial organization of centers and peripheries in the evolution of Inner Asian political and administrative terminology},
year = {2024}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 2364237
AU - Schwarz, Michal - Srba, Ondřej
PY - 2024
TI - Changing understanding of spatial organization of centers and peripheries in the evolution of Inner Asian political and administrative terminology
KW - spatial understanding;centers and peripheries;cardinal points;altitude;Taklamakan Desert;Tocharian;Altai Uriarkhais;Zakhchins;Mongolia;Inner Asia
N2 - This paper focuses on various aspects of spatial organization and spatial perception among particular communities along the Taklamakan Desert with Eastern connections across the Hexi Corridor and Altai Mountains. Especially the tumultuous development with many multi-cultural and multiethnic encounters during the first millennium AD is offering rich data how various communities accommodated their own designation and organizational structure to their particular position in terms of physical geography, relation of neighboring oasis states, powers and cultural traditions. Various languages attest specific cultural understandings before and during the Tang Dynasty: titles of military officers marked by cardinal points related to the position of nearby mountains in Tocharian, westernmost extension of Chinese cultural world in “Western Capital” Xizhou 西州 (= Turfan), which have several later parallels in Mongolian and Manchu administrative units, military titles and general symbolism of cardinal points in the Mongolian tradition. Another traditional Left-Center-Right scale was forming whole empires, administrative units of ruling family members (Xiongnu and all later Turko-Mongolic Empires, e.g. Western and Eastern Turks) or constituted administrative identity of particular areas (Dzungars) as well as identity in diachronic development and in historical sources (Eastern and Western Han / Early and Later Han). Semantic connection of this terminology is representing specific Inner Asian cultural design related to the most sacred power in the center and its hierarchical superiority which nevertheless often did not corresponded to real political power. Also the frequent changes of the location of Inner Asian capital and power center(s) represent specific movement pattern and attest the heritage of ancient non-Chinese pastoral communities contributing to the constitution of the highest layer of Inner Asian imperial culture.
ER -
SCHWARZ, Michal and Ondřej SRBA. Changing understanding of spatial organization of centers and peripheries in the evolution of Inner Asian political and administrative terminology. In \textit{From Athens to Samarqand Spatial Perception in Antiquity from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Taklamakan Desert. 20 th Melammu workshop. Innsbruck, January 17 19 2024.}. 2024.
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