Until the 28th of February, Casa Asia presents the online course Languages and Cultures of North Asia, on Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm. Price: 75 euros.
The sessions that make up this course will be recorded and the recordings will be available for ten days.
This course is an anthropological, historical and linguistic introduction to the peoples of the Arctic (tundra) and the great boreal forest region (taiga) of Eurasia, from the Saami of northern Scandinavia to the Chukchi of the Bering Sea. It presents their ways of life, beliefs and languages. Despite their diversity, the peoples of the north of the continent have an interesting common worldview, boreal shamanism, as a result of the same habitat and a shared cultural history.
The programme is as follows: session 1: The cultural diversity of the tundra and taiga; session 2: The Uralic peoples; session 3: The Altaic peoples; session 4: The Paleosiberian peoples; and session 5: The Chukotko-Kamchatka peoples.
The course will be given by Professor Miguel Peyró, PhD in philology and specialist in the linguistic anthropology of the nomadic peoples of Central and Northern Asia. He is the author of several academic publications on the Altaic languages of Asia. He has been a professor at the universities of Oslo, Cairo and Seville, and director of the research programme “Mongolian Ethnolinguistics” of the Observatory of Tibet and Central Asia of the University of Barcelona.
Casa Asia will deliver by e-mail a certificate of attendance to those who request it and who have attended 80% of the classes. Unemployed people, people with functional diversity, students under 30 years old and retired people will have access to a 10% discount. Registrations can be made through this link.
