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From the Black Mountain to Waziristan
H.C. Wylly
KEY FEATURE(S) While serving in the British Army in the North-West frontier region in the 1890s, Colonel Wylly found that there was no reliable, up to date information on the tribes or on the terrain. His work remains valuable for the detailed descriptions of tribes and their way of life, as well as for the regional background and information on the campaigns waged by the British in an attempt at subjugation.
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The Tibetan Loanwords of Monguor and the Development of the Archaic Dialects
A. Rona-Tas
KEY FEATURE(S) The specific linguistic position of Monguor is the outcome of the historical development of Monguor society. Monguors became farmers, were settled as border-guards of the Chinese Empire, and subsequently played an important part in the spreading of Tibetan Lamaism. Semantically, Monguor vocabulary reflects this background.
This work is particularly valuable for its extensive notes and the richness of sources cited.... |
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Kyssa'i Yusuf
Kul Gali
KEY FEATURE(S) Learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region for generations, Kyssa’i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kul Gali (1183-1236) and is here rendered into English for the first time in its entirety by Fred Beake and Ravil Bukharaev.
Learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region for generations, Kyssa’i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kul Gali (1183-... |
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David Sneath
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
KEY FEATURE(S) A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, many being translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source material and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume’s editors.
This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential ref... |
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Judith Hangartner
UNIVERSITY OF BERN
KEY FEATURE(S) This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby contributing a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia.
This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby contributing a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. ... |
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Kinship, State and Tribalism
David Gullette
KEY FEATURE(S) This book explores the conceptions of genealogy, kinship and ‘tribalism’ in the intertwined construction of personhood and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic. It makes an important contribution to several theoretical and regional debates.
This book explores the conceptions of genealogy, kinship and ‘tribalism’ in the intertwined construction of personhood and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic. It makes an important contribution ... |
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Children of the Steppes
Chokan and Murat Laumulin
KEY FEATURE(S) Here is a well-informed, concise introduction to the culture and history of the vast territory of Kazakhstan, equivalent to the size of Western Europe, located at the centre of geographical Eurasia.
Written by two brothers – one a distinguished scholar and the other well known in Kazakhstan’s media – the book focuses on the Kazakh people who today make up over half the population of some 15 milli... |
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Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva
TASHKENT UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) As well as being a valuable and insightful study into the history, development and tenets of Islam, with particular reference to life in Uzbekistan, this study, which draws on a wide personal network and extensive field research, is also in part a personal quest in support of women’s position and aspirations in the modern world.
In 1991, following the collapse of the USSR, Uzbekistan reappeared on the world map as an independent state within the Russian Federation, choosing the path of secular development and the creation of ... |
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President Mintimer Shaimiev and the Power of Common Sense
Ravil Bukharaev
KAZAN UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Focusing as it does on one of the most interesting and unusual regional examples of the Russian market transformation, successfully piloted by the Tatarstan’s long-serving President Mintimer Shaimiev, this book also argues that whilst there may be no third way between democracy and tyranny, including the economic implications, there may well be and, indeed, are different forms of successful transition, not necessarily foreseen or properly understood by Western observers.
In 1994, the term ‘Tatarstan model’ came into use to describe the path which one of Russia’s constituent republics had adopted during the unprecedented conditions of its transformation from a Soviet-p... |
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EDITED by Rebecca Empson
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
How do prophets and their prophecies influence the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian ... |
