Wolfgang Mieder

Mongolian Proverbs

“Janice Raymond's Mongolian Proverbs fills a regrettable void in the international study of folk wisdom. Her invaluable collection of 1419 proverbs from the fascinating Mongolian culture provides a key to the traditional worldview of the people of the large country of Mongolia. Its bilingual Mongolian-English arrangement does not merely include the texts, but also explanations in both languages concerning the use, function, and meaning of the proverbs based on interviews with the native population. As such, this compilation is a magisterial addition to comparative proverb scholarship.”