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North, Central & West Asia

Russia/Soviet

Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute

A review of Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute and the Making of the Stalinist Idea of World Economy and Politics, 1927-1953, by Kyung Deok......
Gender

Death, Gender & Tradition in Nepal & Tibet

A review of Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing: The Delog (’das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet, by Mary Alyson Prude. In this engaging...
Iran/Persian

Science, Superstition & the Supernatural in Iran

A review of Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran, by Alireza Mohammadi Doostdar. Alireza Mohammadi Doostdar’...
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...
Islamic Studies

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan

A review of Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan, by Sadia Saee...
Fresh from the Archives

Update on the Ottoman Archives, Istanbul

A brief update on the Ottoman Achives of the Office of the Prime Minister (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivleri), Istanbul, Turkey. There are a number of maj...
Iran/Persian

Shi’ism Before the Iranian Revolution

A review of “In Their Place”: Marking and Unmarking Shi’ism in Pahlavi Iran by Aaron Vahid Sealy. Perhaps the Islamic Revolution was a curse for......
Russia/Soviet

Superpowers & Visual Art in the Late Cold War

A review of Worlds on View: Visual Art Exhibitions and State Identity in the Late Cold War, by Nicole Holland. In her dissertation, Nicole Holland...
Med Anthro

Tibetan Medicine in Indian Exile

A review of Tibetan Medicine in Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival, by Stephan Kloos. This dissertation offers the first com...
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...
Iran/Persian

National Imaginary & the Cinema of Kiarostami

A review of Unthinking the National Imaginary: The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, by Hossein Khosrowjah. In recent years, Iranian cinema has att...
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