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London.
Kegan Paul International.
1999.
x + 189pp, dustjacket. Central Asian studies in Scandinavia go back to the 19th century, following the tradition established by Sven Hedin, the great Swedish explorer of eastern Turkestan and Tibet. Now that the political seclusion of Central Asia is ending after some fifty years, Scandinavian scholars are reentering the Silk Routes, with an interdisciplinary approach that provides clues to the cultural roots of Central Asian societies and opens new horizons for research. Some of the twelve papers in this volume deal with the current political situation in the former Soviet Central Asian republics and Afghanistan, which are also considered to be part of central Asia. Other papers are concerned with archaeological exploration in Xinjiang, a recently discovered Mongolian manuscript of Chinggis Khan, stories about Tibetan travellers to the other world and, finally, linguistic issues related to Mongolian and the still controversial question of the relationship between the so-called Altaic languages. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 96450)
ISBN: 9780710306081
Related Subject Areas:
Afghanistan
Archaeology
Central Asia
Language
linguistics
Mongolia
Politics
research
Silk Road
Tibet
Xinjiang
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