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Sunday, 6 July 2008

Kalmoki Muinaisjutte - Kalmyk Fairytales

Kalmoki Muinaisjutte - Kalmyk Fairytales, originally uploaded by punalippu.

Illustrated by Estonian artist Siima Škop. Published in the Soviet Union. Tallinn (Estonia), Kirjastus "Eesti raamat" 1981

I found this lovely little book in a used book store in Tartu, Estonia, a couple of years ago. See more illustrations by Škop.

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Chirayliq is the Uighur word for 'handsome, pretty, beautiful, attractive'. This blog concerns itself with the handsomeness of Central Asian men, and not only. From the Black Sea to Kamchatka, from the Kara Sea to Himalaya, this is a gallery celebrating the rugged charm of the men from the steppes, mountains, deserts and taigas.

Questions? Suggestions? Want to submit your own photos? Feel free to contact blogmaster Tinet.

Chirayliq is now also a tumblr blog, not least because Tinet is too lazy to write substantial posts nowadays! Thus, the tumblr is mostly just eyecandy ... :3

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Tinet - after many years of studying among other things the Russian language and the cultural history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, she has moved to one of the many cities of her dreams (Berlin, Germany) and works as a gun for hire for various publishing companies with typesetting, graphic design, translating and writing, besides drawing comics about funny Russians. She dreams of making big fat richly illustrated coffee table books about the images of Central Asian, Caucasian or Russian men from a cultural historic angle.

Ainur - Ph.D. of History at the University of Lund, Sweden, who in her research has focused on nationalism, identity and stereotypes, mainly in the context of Finnish views on Swedes. She also draws historically correct comics about the Jazz age in the 1920's, which also deal with nationalism, identity and stereotypes, in a quite entertaining way.

Tinet and Ainur are sisters, and their ethnic background is as follows: 62.5% Finnish, 25% Mishär Tatar, 12.5% Kale (Finnish Roma).

Sunday, 6 July 2008

Kalmoki Muinaisjutte - Kalmyk Fairytales

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