Traces of Ancient Iranian Culture in Boysun District, Uzbekistan.

Despite the beginnings made during the Soviet period, there are still isolated regions of Central Asia outside the nominally "Iranian" republic (Tajikistan) where material and societal evidence of pre-Turkic Iranian culture has yet to be collected and studied systematically. Dr. Rahmoni, as yet one of only a few Tajik folklorists actively collecting and publishing such material, presents here a sample of contemporary folk traditions from a rural area of southern Uzbekistan.

These include mourning customs; various instances of the veneration of fire; an elaborate procedure ...

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