Jeremiah Curtin

Broschiertes Buch

A Journey in Southern Siberia

The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths

Beschreibung

In 1900 Jeremiah Curtin made the journey through southern Siberia with the object being to visit the birthplace of the Mongol race, and to see for himself the origins and survivals of a prepotent people which once subdued and ruled China, devastated Russia, conquered Burma and other lands east of India, overran Persia, established themselves in Asia Minor and Constantinople, and covered Hungary with blood and ashes, thus occupying at different epochs most of Asia and a large part of Europe. Jeremiah Curtin (1835 - 1906), was a renowned folk-lorist (linguist and translator). An American, but of Irish descent, in 1887 he traveled in the West of Ireland (including the Aran Islands) recording tales and legends from Gaelic speakers. Born to an Irish Catholic family, Jeremiah Curtin spent his early years on a farm in Greenfield, Wisconsin. After graduating from Harvard (1863), where he studied under Francis James Child, he moved to New York, read law, and worked for the U.S. Sanitary Commission while translating and teaching languages. He then traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia (1864), where he served as Secretary to the American legation headed by Cassius Clay. In his free time Curtin traveled extensively throughout Russia and the Caucasus. Upon his return to the United States, Curtin lectured throughout the country about Russia, marrying Alma Cardell of Warren, Vermont in 1872.

Autor

Jeremiah Curtin was an American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator. Curtin had a strong interest in languages and was fluent in numerous. From 1883 until 1891, he worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology as a field researcher, chronicling the practices and mythology of different Native American tribes. He and his wife, Alma Cardell Curtin, traveled widely, gathering ethnological data from the Modocs of the Pacific Northwest to the Buryats of Siberia. They toured Ireland numerous times, including the Aran Islands, and collected folklore in southwest Munster and other Gaelic-speaking regions with the help of translators. Curtin gathered one of the first accurate collections of Irish folklore and was a valuable resource for W. B. Yeats. Curtin was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Irish parents. He grew up on the family farm in what is now Greendale, Wisconsin, and went on to Harvard College, against his parents' intention for him to attend a Catholic college. While there, he studied with folklorist Francis James Child. Curtin graduated from Harvard in 1863. Curtin subsequently relocated to New York, where he studied law and worked for the United States Sanitary Commission, interpreting and teaching German.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of the Pacific
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781410208781
• ISBN-10: 1410208788
• Artikelnr.: 22344843