Abstract

A Study of the Ancient Turks Family

Highlights

  • The problem of family organization as a social institution of nomadic societies has remained relevant throughout all periods of the study of nomadism

  • Originally ‘the smallest economic unit and the basis of the social structure of the ancient Turks society was a large-family community, whose obligatory attributes were a common dwelling, a common pot, and a patriarch-housekeeper’ (Zuev 1967: 71; 1977: 331). His argument in favor of this was found in sources discussing cattle, which requires stabling, and their presence implies a sedentary way of life for the Türks (Idem 1967: 72)

  • In Zuev's first variant of translation it read ‘...it happens that living in houses in large families call each other “uv-qaγan”; a house is called by the Türks the uv, and that means house qaγan’ (Zuev 1967: 71–72)

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Introduction

The problem of family organization as a social institution of nomadic societies has remained relevant throughout all periods of the study of nomadism. Originally ‘the smallest economic unit and the basis of the social structure of the ancient Turks society was a large-family community, whose obligatory attributes were a common dwelling (at an early stage), a common pot, and a patriarch-housekeeper’ (Zuev 1967: 71; 1977: 331).

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