central eurasian studies

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6068521_696_916192194 is a sequence of freeze-frames from his 2012 The Feast of Kurban Bayram (Kyrgyz hamlet, Pamir Mts.)

Additional Links and Sources

Central Eurasian Scholars & Media Initiative, CESMI, http://cesmi.info/wp/

Blog collected contributors, http://centraleurasia.org/thecessblog

Chagatay & Persian mss held at Chinese Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology in Beijing: Indexed here

Starting with materials collected in summer 2012 during an assignment to Xinjiang Normal University in Urumqi, this webpage will carry links to share far and wide. But if intending to publish any of these things in print or online, please request my permission.

Writings while in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)

jot2012urc.blogspot.com is images, video clips and impressions from a Japan anthropologist, naive to local context

other useful sources on the region, https://sites.google.com/site/big1file/urumqi

Photos and video from summer 2012 in XUAR

bit.ly/atlay2012xuar is the online album of panorama & standard photos:

  • Tuyoc Uyghur traditional village & adjacent (pilgrimage) mazar

  • Turpan museum (exterior friezes & interior spaces)

  • Four day fieldtrip north (Altay county): Kanas National Park, Yurts, circle stones, Karamay, Shihezi

  • Xinjiang Museum: one side of archeology/history, one side to portray 13 ethnic nationalities

https://sites.google.com/site/anthroview/video2012 for short videos from Point-and-Shoot camera

Regarding the ethnographic films of Dr. LIU Xiangchen at Xinjiang Normal University

bit.ly/liu2013xuar is a slideshow to introduce his work, including links to ongoing Pamir Mts. projects

tinyurl.com/ashiq2010 is the 8' trailer to his 2010 film ASHIQ: The Last Troubadours; also at Vimeo

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6068521_696_916192080 is a sequence of freeze-frames from his 2005 Beside the River (Uyghur family in Taklamakan Desert)