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Exploring Central Asia - From the Steppes to the High Pamirs, 1896-1899 (Hardcover)
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Exploring Central Asia - From the Steppes to the High Pamirs, 1896-1899 (Hardcover)
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In the 1890s, the Danish lieutenant Ole Olufsen set out to lead two
expeditions to Tsarist Central Asia. Exploring areas that were
still blank on European and Russian maps, the participants spent
more than a year traveling on horseback in the pamirs and adjacent
valleys bordering Afghanistan, China, and British India. Esther
Fihl offers an in-depth study of these Danish expeditions and
presents the magnificent collection of objects brought back to the
National Museum of Denmark. Drawing on diaries, reports, and
published works and a scrutiny of the guiding principles for their
collecting of objects, she demonstrates how these explorers
portrayed the cultures encountered. This work is a treasure for
anyone interested in Central Asia, early anthropological theory,
material culture, or European travel literature. They lived with
Kyrgyz nomads who carved out an existence for themselves above the
tree line with their sheep, goats, and yaks. Traveling along the
river Pandsh, they were the first Europeans to collect
ethnographical information on the transhumant pastoralists in the
elevated valleys bordering Afghanistan. On the steppes of the
western lowlands, the Danish expeditions stopped in Samarkand,
Khiva, and Bukhara, commercial hubs on the old Silk Road. As
official guests of both the emir of Bukhara and the khan of Khiva,
they studied the handicrafts of the bazaars and the irrigation
agriculture practiced by the Tajiks and Uzbeks. On visits to Merv
they also spent time with Turkmen nomadic tribes who had only
recently been fighting the Russian colonial power.
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