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The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism
edited by Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich
There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Life and Afterlife in the Altaic World
edited by A. Van Tongerloo
350p (Brepols 2011)
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £88.00
Calling the Soul of the Dead
by A. Sarkozi
Research of Mongolion folk-religion has been the subject of special attention in recent years. Editions and translations of extant texts have appeared, providing detailed descriptions of the rituals. This book examines a very special ritual of ...
Paperback. Price GB £58.00
A Central Asian Village at the Dawn of Civilization: Excavations at Anau, Turkmenistan
by Fredrik T. Hiebert and Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov
This report presents evidence from more than a century of archaeological investigation at the site of Anau in Turkmenistan in central Asia. 'The various mounds at Anau represent a microcosm of the development of Central Asia from the earliest settlement ...
Hardback. Price GB £71.99
Iranica Selecta: Studies in Honour of Professor Wojciech Skalmowski on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
edited by A. van Tongerloo
L. BEDNARCZUK; Consonant Lenition in Iranian ; W. BEX; The Visit of Shah Mozaffar ad-Din to Ostend in 1902 ; F. DE BLOIS; Pahr(ag)bed ; P. CHELKOWSKI; Hossein in Popular Culture; K. D'HULSTER; The Sojourn of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar in Belgium (1873); R.N. ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Walls and Frontiers in Inner-Asian History
Part 1 : China, Russia and Central Asia ; S. LIEU; Nestorian Angels from Central Asia and other Christian and Manichaean Remains at Zaitun (Quanzhou) on the South China Coast; C. MACKERRAS; Xinjiang at the Turn of the Century, and the Causes of ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
De Dunhuang A Istanbul: Hommage A James Russell Hamilton
edited by P. Zieme and L. Bazin
L. Bazin; Hommage à James Russell Hamilton ; J. Russell Hamilton & P. Zieme; Bibliographie des uvres de James Russell Hamiton ; J. Ebert; Sogdische Bildfragmente der Aranemi-Legende aus Qoco in Turfan ; G. Shimin; Materials on Tuvan of China ; M. ...
Hardback. Price GB £88.00
Das nestorianische Christentum an den Handelswegen durch Kyrgystan bis zum 14. Jh
by W. Klein
The missionary enterprise of the socalled Nestorian christianity in Asia is an amazing chapter of the religious history. Without any support by rulers or states and independent from the important western church centers Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria and ...
Hardback. Price GB £77.00
Realms of the Silk Roads: Ancient and Modern
edited by D. Christian and C. Benjamin
Realms of the Silk Roads Part 1: New Sources on Inner Asian History N. Sims-Williams, Some Reflections on Zoroastrianism in Sogdiana and Bactria; G. Mikkelsen, Traité/Sermon on the Light-Nous in Chinese and its Parallels in the Parthian, Sogdian and ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Worlds of the Silk Roads: Ancient and Modern
edited by D. Christian and C. Benjamin
Definitions of Inner Asia vary greatly. Inner Asia includes those lands that have linked the major agrarian civilisations of Eurasia, from China to India to the Mediterranean and Europe, since the late Neolithic period. In the 19th century, it became ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
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