Cultural histories of<i>kumiss</i>: tuberculosis, heritage and national health in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

McGuire, Gabriel

doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1327420

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“…Later, horses became particularly prominent in the archaeological record of Early Iron Age Scythians and Sarmatians, who used horses for cavalry 78 , 79 . In addition to traction and riding, horses can also be exploited for milk, which is traditionally fermented to produce an alcoholic beverage in contemporary Eurasian steppe cultures 80 , 81 . However, the origin of horse milking is not known.…”

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Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes

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Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe pastoralist societies arose and spread, ultimately influencing populations from Europe to Inner Asia. However, little is known about their economic foundations and the factors that may have contributed to their extensive mobility. Here, we investigate dietary proteins within the dental calculus proteomes of 45 individuals spanning the Neolithic to Greco-Roman periods in the Pontic–Caspian Steppe and neighbouring South Caucasus, Oka–Volga–Don and East Urals regions. We find that sheep dairying accompanies the earliest forms of Eneolithic pastoralism in the North Caucasus. During the fourth millennium bc, Maykop and early Yamnaya populations also focused dairying exclusively on sheep while reserving cattle for traction and other purposes. We observe a breakdown in livestock specialization and an economic diversification of dairy herds coinciding with aridification during the subsequent late Yamnaya and North Caucasus Culture phases, followed by severe climate deterioration during the Catacomb and Lola periods. The need for additional pastures to support these herds may have driven the heightened mobility of the Middle and Late Bronze Age periods. Following a hiatus of more than 500 years, the North Caucasian steppe was repopulated by Early Iron Age societies with a broad mobile dairy economy, including a new focus on horse milking.

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“…Chekhov was pessimistic about the prospect. It was in 1901 that a medical specialist advised Chekhov that his disease was so severe that he had no choice but to undergo the steppe koumiss cure or die [25].…”

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Therapeutics Effects and Health Benefits of the Caucasus Koumiss: A Review

Kirdar

2021

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Koumiss (koumyss, kumiss, kumys, kumyz, kimiz or coomy) has been popular in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the Turkic, Mongolian, and Caucasian peoples of Russia: Altay, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Tatarstan, Tyva, Chuvashia, and Saha (Yakutia). Many countries in numerous Central Asian countries provide Koumiss therapeutic services, which are primarily provided by small and medium-sized accommodation firms that are particularly active in rural areas of those countries. Koumiss is classified as a functional food due to its nutritional and medicinal properties. Many health benefits of koumiss include high probiotic content; antibacterial and antifungal characteristics; regulation of immunity; maintenance of a healthy gastric-intestinal system; regulation of cholesterol and sugar levels; regulation of blood pressure; and induction of some important vitamins. The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive summary of the health benefits of koumiss.

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“…The Mongolian practice of preserving milk by leaving it out in the sun had been industrialized in Europe during the nineteenth century, and many different varieties of the foodstuff had been developed and marketed as aids to maternal care. 17 Yet those whose attention was caught by the ad would have noticed something different from other milk products on the market: this "new and wonderful" food was intended not for PUPPY LOVE ▪ 293 at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.181 children but for dogs.…”

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“…The Mongolian practice of preserving milk by leaving it out in the sun had been industrialized in Europe during the nineteenth century, and many different varieties of the foodstuff had been developed and marketed as aids to maternal care. 17 Yet those whose attention was caught by the ad would have noticed something different from other milk products on the market: this "new and wonderful" food was intended not for children but for dogs. 18 Lactol was the first of an expanding range of proprietary milk-food products developed by dog-food manufacturers such as Spratts Patent, W. G. Clarke, and Spillers & Co. during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.…”

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Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care

Quick¹

2019

J. Br. Stud.

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The health and well-being of pets became a significant matter of medical and scientific concern during the first decades of the twentieth century. Addressing the case of dogs, this article contends that this circumstance was not primarily a consequence of developments internal to veterinary practice but rather emerged from the broader-based domestic-science movement. The elaboration of scientifically oriented approaches to dog care signals the incorporation of pets within a maternal ideal that emphasized care and efficiency as domestic virtues. Via consideration of canine milk foods, women-led canine medical institutions, canine-concerned domestic workers, and rationalist approaches to kennel design, the article demonstrates that dogs should be placed alongside such established objects of domestic scientific reform as children, homes, and human bodies. Moreover, it shows that scientific reconceptualizations of dogs relied on an extensive network of (primarily women) laborers that included food producers, nursing staff, kennel attendants, and breeders. The article thereby contributes to a growing body of scholarship highlighting ways in which the domestic-science movement forged new scientific objects and practices around the turn of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, dogs were routinely being upheld as exemplars of the kinds of homely existence made possible by scientifically informed approaches to domestic living.

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Cultural histories ofkumiss: tuberculosis, heritage and national health in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes

Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes

Therapeutics Effects and Health Benefits of the Caucasus Koumiss: A Review

Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care

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