Research Catalog

Title

Exploring Central Asia : collecting objects and writing cultures from the steppes to the high Pamirs, 1896-1899 / Esther Fihl ; Ida Nicolaisen, editor-in-chief.

Author

Fihl, Esther.

Publication

London : Thames and Hudson ; Copenhagen : Rhodos, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Nicolaisen, Ida.
• Nationalmuseet (Denmark)
• Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project

Description

2 v. (736 p.) : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Series Statement

Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project

Uniform Title

Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project (Series)

Subject

• Olufsen, O. 1865-1929
• Nationalmuseet (Denmark) > Catalogs
• 1800-1899
• Nomads > Asia, Central
• Ethnology > Asia, Central > 19th century
• Asia, Central > Description and travel
• Asia, Central > Antiquities
• Asia, Central > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• History
• Catalogs

Note

• "The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project."
• "The prime aim of this publication has been to present the rich museum collection of objects, known as the 'Olufsen collection', which belongs to the National Museum of Denmark"--P. [19].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [682]-700) and indexes.

Language (note)

• In English with summary in Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

v. 1. Editor's preface : Danish nomad research, an overview ; Author's acknowledgements : a sketch of the research process ; Introduction ; Written sources and beyond ; The Danish setting in the 1890s ; travelling on a museum assignment ; Collecting objects ; The museum life of the objects ; Kyrgyz nomads in the Pamirs ; Agropastoralists in Vakhan ; Catalogue -- V.2. Turkmen nomads in Merv ; The Khanate of Khiva ; The Emirate of Bukhara and the Russian-controlled part of Turkestan ; Catalogue ; Representations of Central Asia ; Conclusion.

ISBN

8772455713

OCLC

• 53487116
• SCSB-10528412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library