Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang's past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and kwledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildiko Beller-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fallman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Asad Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004322973
ISBN-13
9789004322974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
226679242
Product Key Features
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leiden
Issn
1566-7162
Series Part/Volume Number
34
Series Title
Brill's Inner Asian Library
Author Biography
Ildiko Beller-Hann (PhD 1989, habilitation 2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her numerous publications on the anthropology and history of the Uyghur of Xinjiang include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949 (Brill 2008). Birgit N. Schlyter (PhD 1985) is Professor of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published extensively in Turkic linguistics and is the editor of Gunnar Jarring's unpublished last manuscript, a comprehensive Uyghur-English dialect dictionary.Jun Sugawara (MA 1992) is Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has published a dictionary and numerous articles on the history and language of Uyghurs, including A Concise Modern Uyghur-Japanese Dictionary (ILCAA 2009)
Date of Publication
17/11/2016
Volume Editor
Ildiko Beller-Hann, Jun Sugawara, Birgit N. Schlyter