.... Turning toward the horse as a subject of analysis draws attention toward the entanglement of the human and the non human, of rituals and ritual objects, of gift horses and equestrian portrait gifts, and between pictorial practices, texts, traditions, and trade in shaping the cultural dimensions...

... predicting people rather than horses. This is because the future is not considered an open-ended event subject to laws of chance, but rather an event that is fixed. The races are perceived as spectacles hiding the real underlying game, where races are being manipulated by jockeys, trainers, horse owners...

...Ken Seigneurie When the Lebanese civil war officially broke out in 1975, the conflict looked a lot like one of the numerous proxy wars that hitched local animosities to the East-West ideological struggle. Within a year, however, the cart began pulling the horse as ethnic-sectarian struggle...

... continued to serve as a market for the Central Eurasian horse trade. But as the city's irrigation canals deteriorated and its environs became a swamp, it was visited by repeated outbreaks of cholera and malaria, until the city was abandoned for the nearby shrine town of Mazar-e Sharif in the mid-nineteenth...

... Power as a Factor in Ottoman Military Decline, 1683-1918 .” Paper presented at the War Horses Conference , SOAS, University of London , May 3, 2014 . www.soas.ac.uk/history/conferences/war-horses-conference-2014/#WilliamG.Clarence-SmithSOASUniversityofLondon . Connor Steven . “ Michel...

... proceeds from right to left (as obviously indicated by the direction of the horses and caravans...

... dia, 2004), 44. ers, 19. 410 In about 327 BCE, Alexander besieged and cap- sweating,” “of dragon seed,” and “heavenly” to tured a fortress in Sogdiana, known in his biog- refer to these prized horses.11 The Hou Han Shu, 411 raphies as the “Sogdian Rock...

...” and James comen’s boy, who connected the piston and cam Hargreaves’s “spinning jenny” in the same way that so that he could go fishing, also betrays a similarly a mule is the product of crossbreeding a horse with apocryphal belief in the labor-­saving and liberat...

... in the raiding parties or witnessed their preparations. “ Alaman , chapaul , yurtaul , tataul ,” writes Anna Morozova, these are the terms denoting armed horse raids among the Turkmen to seize property, slaves, cattle, weapons and grain from neighboring peoples. . . . The term alaman denoted...

... Zamani baraye masti asbha “One of the remarkable features of recent (A Time for Drunken Horses) and those Iranian film is its allegorical use of gendered Celebrating the Spaces of Femininity in Iranian Cinema inhabiting the barren, dry mountainscape tropes, in particular...

... widespread so rapidly"(p. 50 police reinforcements were brought in. ''We had a beautiful white horse which we had bought for "Then one day the police came. They went from village to use of the Party from a local...

.... Arash Khazeni’s 398 essay considers the environmental history of the sentations and furthered the conversations dur- Afghan frontier city of Balkh and its role as an ing the conference at Pomona. Stephen Dale 399 emporium for the Central Eurasian horse trade delivered a keynote...

... of China’s distance ducted through a system of government-­run way and foreignness becomes, itself, an important stations, from the border to the capital, where part of the argument. The Khatay’namah con- they presented horses and other items...

... c ). He tied it to his horses, who were only able to move it slightly. His soldiers then tied it to elephants, but when they tried pulling it, the ropes broke and they fell to the ground. Finally, someone—the king himself, it seems—hacked at the image with axes. It is not exactly clear what happens...

... in anthropology at Columbia University. He Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You currently teaches in the Graduate Program in Inter- Leave the Horse Alone? (Archipelago, 2006). His writing national Affairs at the New School. has been published in diacritics, MLN, CR...

.... Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings . New York : Oxford University Press , 1985 . Digby Simon . War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate: A Study of Military Supplies . Oxford : Orient Monographs , 1971 . Dwyer Rachel . All You Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love...

... the In fteDvtoa set fAhr nTevrSh Twelver in Ashura of Aspects Devotional the of os fKraa ulmDvtoa iei India in Life Devotional Muslim Karbala: of Horse Community Muslim...

...,” www.search.eb.com/ (accessed 20 Octo- chaeological Investigation,” in Idea of Iran: The Age Chinese interest in trade as almost nonexistent, since ber 2008) (emphasis added). of the Parthians, ed. Vesta Sarkhosh-­Curtis and Sarah their interest in Central Asian horses is known...

..., and they average about 17 centimeters tall by 27 centimeters wide. Turkmen Ertegileri is 23 centimeters tall by 40 centimeters wide. Figure 1: The farmer 314 with the ox he traded for the horse. Chalshirma, 3. Book...

... to be more widespread. It remains to be seen how the recovery of civil space will be apportioned between violence and creativity, between destruction and development. Common Heritage For some purposes, one can always run a horse-race between India and Pakistan on the basis of various economic...