Best Books on Central Asia in 2017

Hamid Ismailov On “The Devils’ Dance” and Other Works

byvoca
Posted on April 18, 2018April 18, 2018

“A beguiling tale of khans, commissars, spies and poet-queens…[who] feature in a rare English translation of modern Uzbek fiction.” This is how The Economist described The Devils’ Dance, the most…

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12 min
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“Have the Mountains Fallen?” The Story of Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War

byAitolkyn Kourmanova
Posted on April 4, 2018April 10, 2018

In the early 1990s, while working as a journalist in Moscow, Jeff Lilley witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2004, he moved to Kyrgyz Republic. After spending around…

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“Azan on the Moon”: Anthropology of Infrastructure

byAitolkyn Kourmanova
Posted on February 25, 2018February 26, 2018

Till Mostowlansky is intrigued by the anthropological study of routes, roads and pathways, and the anthropology of infrastructure more generally. This research interest frames his latest monograph, Azan on the Moon: Entangling…

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Iconic Places in Central Asia. The Moral Geography of Dams, Pastures and Holy Sites explained by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix

byAitolkyn Kourmanova
Posted on January 29, 2018February 2, 2018

Interview Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix is a social anthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She specializes in environmental issues and…

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19 min
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia

byAitolkyn Kourmanova
Posted on January 19, 2018February 1, 2018

The NAC-NU Central Asia Studies Program, in partnership with GW’s Central Asia Program, has published a book on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its impact in Central Asia.…

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17 min
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Sufism as a Product of Collective Imagination: On a New History of Islamic Mysticism

byAitolkyn Kourmanova
Posted on December 27, 2017April 2, 2018

Alexander Knysh’s Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism is the result of more than thirty years of study of Sufism and Sufis. The monograph critically reconsiders approaches to the…

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9 min
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