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0180 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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of nomadic pastoralism, affects the position of women. If
our conclusions are correct, all character is influenced, more
or less, by physical environment, and hence is one of the
subjects with which geography is concerned.

Mohammedanism, as every one knows, inculcates the
seclusion of woman, and makes of her nothing but a stupid
drudge to do man's work, or a light plaything for his plea-
sure. Wherever people of Muslim faith gather in towns and
cities, as I have seen them in Turkey, Persia, India, Asiatic
Russia, and Chinese Turkestan, this ideal prevails. In the
crowded villages and cities women can do their work behind
high mud walls, and can be confined to certain unseen rooms
when male guests visit the house. The support of the family
does not depend upon them, and their activities are almost
wholly dependent on the will of their husbands. It is but
rarely necessary that they should leave the house, and when
they do, there is usually no work to be done and it is easy
to keep their faces covered. Even the peasant women, who
must work in the fields, keep aloof, and come in contact
with men but little. Only the very poor, or those who are
confessedly immoral, go about in public with unveiled
faces. The evil effect of all this has been often described,
and needs no comment.

Among nomads the case is different. The women of all
races, so far as I know, both Mohammedan and non-Mo-
hammedan, go about unveiled, and have a strong influence
in the affairs of the community. Their relative strength
of character is evident from the notable fact that when a
Turkoman woman is married to a Persian, or a Kurdish
woman to a Turk, the wife from the nomad stock, so it is