Return To The Silk Routes: Current Scandinavian Research on Central Asia / Edition 1

by Mirja Juntunen, Birgit N. Schlyter

Overview

First Published in 1999. The majority of the contributions to this volume have their origin in a symposium which was held in Stockholm on 27–29 September 1996 under the Swedish title of Nordisk Centralasienforskning: språk – kultur – samhälle, i.e. 'Nordic Central Asia Research: Language – Culture – Society'. The main purpose of this meeting was to obtain a general view of current research activities and study programmes in this field and to help establish contact between Central Asia researchers in the Nordic countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710306081
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/07/1999
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Mirja Juntunen, Birgit N. Schlyter

Table of Contents

Preface, Remarks on Transcription and Spelling, CENTRAL ASIA RESEARCH - A BACKGROUND, Nordic Research on Central Asia: Past, Present and Future, Marginal Centrality: Central Asian Studies on the Eve of a New Millennium, ARCHAEOLOGY, Chinese Excavations at Turfan, The Sino-Swedish Expedition to Yar-tonguz in 1994, RELIGION, Superscribing the Hegemonic Image of Chinggis Khan in the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, 'They only weep ...': Stories about Tibetan Travellers to the Other Worlds, LANGUAGE, Regional Aspects of the Turkic Influence on Mongolian, Remarks on the Mongolian Vowel System, Towards a Sociolinguistic History of Sinkiang, POLITICAL ASPECTS, Russia and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Reintegration Ahead?, Democracy versus Stability in Kazakstan, War and Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on Research Priorities, Biographical Notes on the Contributors