North, Central & West Asia
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......
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...
A review of Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran, by Alireza Mohammadi Doostdar. Alireza Mohammadi Doostdar’...
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...
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...
A review of Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan, by Sadia Saee...
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...
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......
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...
A review of Tibetan Medicine in Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival, by Stephan Kloos. This dissertation offers the first com...
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...
A review of Unthinking the National Imaginary: The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, by Hossein Khosrowjah. In recent years, Iranian cinema has att...