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Inner and Central Asian Studies

Inner/Central Asia

Water & Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941

A review of Technologies of Rule: Water, Power, and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941, by Maya Karin Peterson. As the Russian Empire renewe...
Inner/Central Asia

Music & Entertainment in Kazakhstan

A review of Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ideology and Legacy, by Margarethe Adams. Margarethe Adams’ dissertation investigates t...
Fresh from the Archives

Al-Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Tashkent

A review of the al-Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The al-Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies at the Uzbek Academy of S...
Inner/Central Asia

Natural Disaster, Mobility & Vulnerability in Mongolia

A review of Going on Otor: Disaster, Mobility, and the Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Uguumur, Mongolia, by Daniel Murphy. In the winter of 200...
Inner/Central Asia

Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991

A review of Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991, by Eren Murat Tasar.  Eren Murat Tasar devoted his doctor...
Inner/Central Asia

Long-Song (Urtyn Duu) in Post-Socialist Mongolia

A review of Chasing the Singers: The Transition of Long-Song (Urtyn Duu) in Post-Socialist Mongolia, by Sunmin Yoon. Sunmin Yoon’s dissertation examin...
China

Eastern Turki Materials in European Archives Part II

Eastern Turki materials in European Archives Part II of II: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin, Germany and Bibliothek der D...
Inner/Central Asia

Knowledge & Power on the Kazakh Steppe, 1845-1917

A review of Knowledge and Power on the Kazakh Steppe, 1845-1917, by Ian Wylie Campbell. Historians love failure. It is barriers and breakdowns, mistra...
Inner/Central Asia

Muslims & Modernity in Imperial Russia

A review of Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Inroads of Modernity, by Mustafa Tuna. Before 1917, Muslim intellectuals in Russia’s Volga-Ural region (today’s...
Inner/Central Asia

Early Nomadic Polities on the Mongolian Steppe

A review of Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic Polities, by Jean-Luc Houle. H...
China

The Origins of Uyghur Nationalism

A review of Tending to Unite? The Origins of Uyghur Nationalism, by David Brophy. This is transnational history at its best. David Brophy has taken......
Asian Art

Ming Temples in the Sino-Tibetan Frontier

A review of The Impact of Imperial and Local Patronage on Early Ming Temples in the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, by Aurelia Campbell. From the outset, the.....
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