{"id":269,"date":"2008-09-04T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-08-28T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T15:39:17","slug":"sarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/09\/04\/sarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of contested provenance, the term <em>sart<\/em> refers to oasis-dwellers of Chinese and former Soviet Central Asia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the antonym of &#8216;nomad.&#8217;\u00a0 At one time it might have had a connotation of &#8220;Persian-speaker&#8221; but that&#8217;s not the current sense of it.\u00a0 Possibly also pejorative.\u00a0 V.V. Barthold, the Gibbon of Turkestan, I think had much to say on this matter.\u00a0 (Gibbon is the Barthold of Rome.)\u00a0 Wikipedia notes that &#8220;the Muslim, Mongol-speaking <a title=\"Dongxiang\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dongxiang_people\">Dongxiang <\/a>people of Northwestern China call themselves Sarta or Santa. It is not clear if there is any connection between this term and the Sarts of Central Asia.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of contested provenance, the term sart refers to oasis-dwellers of Chinese and former Soviet Central Asia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the antonym of &#8216;nomad.&#8217;\u00a0 At one time it might have had a connotation of &#8220;Persian-speaker&#8221; but that&#8217;s not the current sense of it.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/09\/04\/sarts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1421,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8jQA6-sarts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}