Beschreibung
The ten chapters of this book, all of them published
previously in specialist works, derive from the author’s
ethnographic research among the Uyghur of Xinjiang and
Kazakhstan in the mid-1990s. Approaching beliefs and
practices as politically embedded, the articles have
historical value in documenting the possibilities and
constraints of fieldwork in this region in the 1990s. They
also offer a point of departure for new studies of the
Uyghur and their relations with their neighbours in the
increasingly difficult conditions which characterise the
early twenty-first century.
Ildikó Bellér-Hann is Associate Professor at
the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies,
University of Copenhagen. A specialist in Turkic and Central
Asian Studies, she has published extensively on Turkey as
well as the Uyghurs.
