4 The Economic Role of Mongol Women: Continuity and Transformation from Mongolia to Iran

Nicola, Bruno De

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“…There are a number of reasons to expect mixed patterns of inheritance with respect to gender in this sample. Inheritance through the female line is consistent with an observed tradition of independent and socially prominent women among Turkic and Mongolian pastoralists [43][44][45][46]. It may result from matrilocal co-residence that occurs despite normative patrilocality.…”

Section: (B) Predictions For Camp Inheritance By Gender and Birth Ordersupporting

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Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia

Hooper

Reynolds

Bayarsaikhan

et al. 2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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At the headwaters of the Yenisei River in Tuva and northern Mongolia, nomadic pastoralists move between camps in a seasonal rotation that facilitates their animals' access to high-quality grasses and shelter. The use and informal ownership of these camps depending on season helps illustrate evolutionary and ecological principles underlying variation in property relations. Given relatively stable patterns of precipitation and returns to capital improvement, families generally benefit from reusing the same camps year after year. We show that locations with higher economic defensibility and capital investment—winter camps and camps located in mountain/river valleys—are claimed and inherited more frequently than summer camps and camps located in open steppe. Camps are inherited patrilineally and matrilineally at a ratio of 2 : 1. Despite its practical importance, camp inheritance is not associated with livestock wealth today, which is better predicted by education and wealth outside the pastoral economy. The relationship between the livestock wealth of parents and their adult children is significantly positive, but relatively low compared to other pastoralists. The degree of inequality in livestock wealth, however, is very close to that of other pastoralists. This is understandable considering the durability and defensibility of animal wealth and economies of scale common across pastoralists. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolutionary ecology of inequality’.

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Section: (B) Predictions For Camp Inheritance By Gender and Birth Ordersupporting

confidence: 71%

Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia

Hooper

Reynolds

Bayarsaikhan

et al. 2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Power and Politics of Representation: Picturing Elite Women in Ilkhanid Painting

Chida-Razvi¹

2021

JRAS

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The first half of the fourteenth century was a discrete period in Ilkhanid Iran during which paintings that pictured elite Mongol women in their true courtly milieu, participating in courtly life and in their contemporary place within societal hierarchies, were produced. It will be argued that a correlation existed between the power wielded by these women in Mongol socio-economic and political spheres and their depictions as formative, important members of the ruling elite; and that the decrease, and ultimate halting, of such representations coincided with changes in their political, cultural and social power. Using Ilkhanid enthronement scenes in the Diez and Istanbul albums to illustrate how visible and prominent the Khātūns were, a fact corroborated by written testimonials of visitors to the Mongol courts, this paper then examines how such images became symbols of legitimacy for later Il-Khans as well as later Persianate rulers in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It will be argued that the image of an enthroned royal Ilkhanid couple carried the weight of political and dynastic legitimacy, and that the inclusion of the Mongol Khātūn was integral to this symbolic importance.

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Narrating mythical genealogy: examples from the Chingiznāma-Oghuznāma Complex

Baldauf

2020

Asian Ethnicity

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This article focuses on mythico-historical texts belonging to the Chingiznāma-Oghuznāma Complex, an oral and written tradition that emerged over the course of seven centuries in post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. It disentangles the narrative strategies creatively employed by authors and tradents who deconstructed and reconstructed narratives that blend the genealogy of Chingiz Khan with the epic story of Oghuz Qaghan, showing how they mobilized and developed the plots and motifs at their disposal to meet the political, ideological and communal requirements of their times. Focusing in particular on the changing ways in which the texts foreground particular mothers and the maternal line over nobility granted through paternal descent, the article highlights narrative traces of multiple religious beliefs and postulates-Jewish and Christian, as well as Inner Asian theistic and Islamic. It also demonstrates that some later texts refute claims to descentbased continuity in power and rule altogether.

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4 The Economic Role of Mongol Women: Continuity and Transformation from Mongolia to Iran

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Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia

Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia

Power and Politics of Representation: Picturing Elite Women in Ilkhanid Painting

Narrating mythical genealogy: examples from the Chingiznāma-Oghuznāma Complex

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