Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949
Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur
Biographical note
Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Ph.D. (1989) in Turkic Studies, University of Cambridge, is researcher at the Martin-Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg. She has published extensively on the Turkic speaking peoples and cultures of Xinjiang, North-East Turkey and Central Asia.
Readership
All those interested in the history and culture of the Uyghur, the social history of Xinjiang, Central Asia and China specialists, historical anthropologists, as well as specialists in the Turkic speaking world.
Reviews
"...is a pioneering effort in its historical anthropological approach. Her use of early ethnographic and primary accounts of domestic and religious life in Xinjiang reveals the importance of community in Uyghur social relations during the period in question. (...) As such Community Matters provides a useful historical foundation for further scholarship on contemporary Uyghur affairs."
James D. Frankel, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37 (2011).
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