CHINTA
MANI Between 17th Oct & 13th Nov. Richard Manning, produced a travelling
web cast from the Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.A cradle of culture since earliest times, Central Asia is known to explorers and travellers as the Heart of Asia. It is a melting pot of tribal groups and nomads and is a living museum of ancient cities and cultures. The journey will focus on three subjects, the Equestrian Nomads of this region, a Sufi group known as the Naqshbandi's and a meeting between a local Bakshe, Ashur Pulat and I.
Central Asia, until recently dominated by the U.S.S.R., is little known
to people in the west, but it is a place of long history and great influence.
The region is the parent of many distant cultures, known as 'Central Asia'
not because of it's geographical location, but because of it's role as
the birth place of many cultures and traditions. Over the course of history
the people and tribes of this area have moved from home to form Empires
and Civilisations which have greatly influenced the rest of the world.
The North American Indians, found by Europeans when they first arrived
on mainland America had migrated from Central Asia many thousands of years
beforehand through the Bering Straits.
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