Reviews

Khadzhieva, T. M.. “Iz Istorii Kul’tury Balkarii i Karachaia (Ismail Urusbiev i Ego Synov’ia)”. In Karachaevtsy i Balkartsy: Iazyk, Etnografiia, Arkheologiia, Fol’klor, edited by E.R. Tenishev et al., 300–309. Moscow: Institut etnologii i antropologii Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2001.
reviewed by The Redaction

This short article is devoted to the role as cultural intermediaries played in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the landowner Ismail Uruzbiev and his two sons Safar-Ali and Nawruz for a number of Russian and foreign (mainly British) alpinists, artists, and specialists of the history and ethnography of the Karachays & Balkars.  The author also sheds light on the activity Safar-Ali and Nawruz Urusbiev as editors of the Narts epics.

The Redaction
CER: I-1.2.B-62