Language, it is often said, is a window into the human mind. David Harrison experienced this firsthand as a young linguist in the 1990s when he traveled to the Russian republic of Tuva to spend a year ...

Vol. 62, No. 2, Glimpses of historical Central Asia Part II (2019), pp. 149-174 (26 pages) Poetry in the Tuvan language (Turkic family, south Siberia) uses a versification system known as strophic ...

The American Sean Quirk, who is one of musicians and the manager of the well-known in Russia and beyond Tuvinian Alash ensemble, speaks four languages. On foreign tours, he announces the songs of the ...

For years, the territory that makes up Tuva spent hundreds of years changing hands. The semi-autonomous republic is now technically part of Russia. But Tuvans boast a musical identity all their own, ...

Shodekeh Talifero was a panelist at a conference on world affairs in 2009 when he met fellow panelist and legendary film critic Roger Ebert and the pair made a connection. “He wrote to me, ‘I wish I ...

CORVALLIS — Throat singing is an extraordinary vocal form in which one singer produces two or more voices simultaneously, harmonizing one with another to create richly layered melodies which evoke the ...

One morning in early fall Andrei Mongush and his parents began preparations for supper, selecting a black-faced, fat-tailed sheep from their flock and rolling it onto its back on a tarp outside their ...