scholarly journals Asian Studies Expert A. A. Semenov: Turkomstaris and Sredazkomstaris Periods (1921–1928)

2022 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-875
Author(s):  
G. E. Mamaeva
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Valuable Data ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Scientific Worldview

The research featured the biography of Alexander A. Semenov (1873–1959), an outstanding expert in Asian Studies, who made a great contribution to Soviet and global oriental scholarship. The paper focuses on his work at the Turkestan Committee for Museums and Protection of Antiquities, Art, and Nature (Turkomstaris) and the Central Asian Committee for Museums and Protection of Antiquities, Art, and Nature (Sredazkomstaris) in 1921–1928. The research involved articles published by A. A. Semyonov in 1926 and 1928 in the Proceedings of the Central Asian Committee, as well as valuable data from publications made by Professor A. M. Mironov and Chairman of Sredazkomstaris D. I. Nechkin. A. A. Semyonov owed his education to the outstanding teaching staff of Lazarev Institute: V. F. Miller, N. N. Kharuzin, F. E. Korsh, and M. O. Attai. His scientific worldview was shaped under the influence of orientalist V. V. Barthold.

scholarly journals Ritual Process and Symbolic Transformation in Cultural Landscapes of Proto-Urban Bactria

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Ionesov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Ritual Process ◽  
The Bronze Age

The focus of this discussion is a recent book on the Bronze Age Proto-Bactrian culture of Southern Uzbekistan. I dare say that there are some books that inspire us to study monuments, and there are some monuments that inspire us to write books. But there are some books that become scientific monuments themselves in documenting the archaeological artefacts in the form of texts, messages, and narratives. Among such academic works is the monograph Buston VI – the Necropolis of Fire-worshippers of Pre-urban Bactria (Samarkand: IICAS, 2016. – 634 pp. ISBN 978-9943-357-36-5), recently published by the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS).

Central Asia: West and East

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN BOARDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
British India ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the interest of the west in the history of Central Asia. It explains that central Asia has been studied by many western scholars and explorers, including British archaeologist Aurel Stein and traveller Sir John de Maundeville. Central Asia figured prominently in the days of political concerns about the safety of British India in the nineteenth century and this generated the interest of scholars. Today, the boom in Central Asian studies is further encouraged by the presence in Britain of those who have worked in this field and the source of many new publications on both prehistoric and historic periods.

Hvatanica

1937 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian

It has seemed desirable to make known at once certain information of interest to Central Asian studies contained in Khotan texts of the British Museum and India Office. This information may here be conveniently grouped under the heads (1) the animal cycle of twelve years, (2) the names of the months and seasons in Khotan, (3) dates androyal names.

scholarly journals In search of a "new" Sovietology, new Post-Sovietology or Central Asian Studies…

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Zarema Shaimardanova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
The Political ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
New Independent States

The Euro-American, Kazakh and Russian studies naturally raised and are still raising the question of the future Sovietology, Post-Sovietology and even Post-Post- Sovietology caused by the USSR collapse and understanding the need to rethink the theoretical and methodological foundations to study the New Independent States / CIS as a whole and in the Central Asian region, in particular. Sovietology could not adequately reflect the changed reality. The author demonstrates the consistency and inconsistency of sovietology concerning the question about Kazakhstan history, as colonization, russification, sovietization and etc. The socio-economic development of independent Kazakhstan evaluated by foreign researchers was taken as an example in order to show traits of Sovietology inherited earlier. Guided by the inequality of the world order and sovietology experience, the objective and impartial theoretical and methodological basis to study CIS space is required. Otherwise, methodological inconsistency of Sovietology and PostSovietology in explanation and understanding of the political and socio-cultural processes in the territory of CIS will be a natural phenomenon. The "special way" of study, neoinstitutional approach, historical, comparative and pluralist approaches are offered on the basis of international scholars' analysis.

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