{"title":"SILK ROAD STUDIES","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilk Road Studies explores the vibrant exchanges that shaped Eurasia across centuries. This category brings together scholarship on the movement of peoples, goods, beliefs, and artistic traditions along the diverse networks collectively known as the Silk Roads. Emphasizing both nomadic and sedentary cultures, it highlights the political, economic, and cultural encounters that fostered innovation and transformation from the Mediterranean to East Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorks in this series investigate topics such as cross-cultural diplomacy, trade systems, religious transmissions, literary interactions, and the lived experiences of frontier communities. By drawing on archaeology, history, anthropology, art history, and related disciplines, Silk Road Studies aims to deepen our understanding of how interconnected worlds emerged and how they continue to influence societies today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"breeze-and-storm-nomadic-culture-tribal-politics-along-the-silk-road-by-isenbike-togan","title":"Breeze and Storm: Nomadic Culture – Tribal Politics Along the Silk Road by Isenbike Togan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a collection of studies spanning over three decades of Isenbike Togan’s scholarship. The essays explore the dynamic interplay between nomadic lifeways and political organization across Eurasia, focusing primarily on Turkic and Mongolian societies. The volume is conceptually divided into two thematic currents: “Breeze”, addressing the everyday culture of pastoral nomads — including social norms, material practices, oral tradition, gender, and ecological interaction — and “Storm”, examining periods of upheaval, conquest, and transformation from the pre-Chinggisid era through the Mongol Empire’s political legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from both historical sources and fieldwork among contemporary nomadic communities, Togan interrogates assumptions imposed by sedentary perspectives and emphasizes indigenous frameworks of meaning. Key themes include the evolution from decentralized tribal structures to centralized “chiefdoms,” the emergence of Chinggis Khan’s authority through power-sharing and legitimacy-building, the changing role of women and kinship, and the persistence of nomadic social ethics such as autonomy, coexistence, and reciprocity. Together, these essays illuminate nomadism not as marginal or static but as a sophisticated system that has shaped Eurasian history through mobility, adaptability, and wide-ranging cultural contacts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FORUM TAURI Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46674411487381,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/4149\/6469\/files\/BreezeandStormfront_cover.jpg?v=1764402411"}],"url":"https:\/\/forumtauripress.myshopify.com\/collections\/silk-road-studies.oembed","provider":"FORUMTAURI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}