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

by Mirja Juntunen (Editor), Birgit N. Schlyter (Editor)

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:	9781136175268
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	4 MB

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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