01 Feb 2003

The Western Yugur Steppe
home.arcor.de, Germany
"Welcome to the Western Yugur steppe, home of the Western Yugur or Yellow Uygur people. The Western Yugur are a small, Turkic speaking community living in the province of Gansu in China."
Supplied note: "url update of site listed at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/old-asian-news/archival/asia-www-monitor-00-07.html - mr."
Site contents: * Introduction (The Western Yugur People, Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, History of the Yugur, The Western Yugur Language, Yugurology); * Literature and culture (Folktales, Folk Wisdom, Folk Songs, Proverbs, Riddles, Religion) * Entertainment (Western Yugur Cuisine, Western Yugur Traditional Costume, Traditional Calendar, Western Yugur Botanical Names, Western Yugur Bawdiness Purged, Post Office, The Weather) * References (Bibliography [Western Yugur primary and secondary sources Literature on folktales Literature on proverbs, riddles and folk wisdom Literature on music, and discography], Index of Aarne-Thompson Types, Index of Motifs, Index of Malov's Texts (1967), Index of Tenishev's Texts (1976), Search, Folklore and Urban Legends Ring Station, Links: Travel the Steppes and Beyond).
URL http://home.arcor.de/marcmarti/yugur/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the new site was not archived at the time of this abstract. The copies of the old site available at the http://web.archive.org/web/*/www3.cybercities.com/w/westernyugur/index.htm address.]
Link reported by: Marti Roos (martiroos[use"@"]hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30