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Breeze & Storm - Nomadic Culture and Tribal Politics Along the Silk Road

Nomadic people have been associated with storm rather than breeze in terms of their activities across Asia. The collection of essays in this volume however emphasizes both, but gives more space to breeze in terms of cultural interaction and mutual influence with sedentary societies. In general, cultural influence is perceived as coming from sedentary societies as a civilizing process and effecting nomads. Essays in this volume do not speak of a higher culture affecting a lower culture, but look at the nomads and the sedentary... More