[Discussion] PUBL.- Central Asia: Past, Present & Future, Proceedings of the 7th ESCAS Conf.

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From: Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek <gabriele.rasuly@univie.ac.at>


PUBL.- Central Asia: Past, Present & Future, Proceedings of the 7th 
ESCAS Conf.

Central Asia: Past, Present and Future
Proceedings of the VII. Conference of the European Society for Central Asian
Studies (Reihe: Wiener Zentralasien Studien - Vienna Central Asian Studies)
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, Julia Katschnig (eds.)
Vol. 1, Vienna 2004 (LIT-Verlag), 480 pages; 49.90 EUR, br.
ISBN 3-8258-8309-4

Despite its current geostrategic importance and its easier accessibility 
since
the dissolvement of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has nevertheless 
remained a
white spot on the map of western scholarship and public awareness.

Bringing together papers presented at the VIIth Conference of the European
Society for Central Asian Studies, which took place in September 2000 in 
Vienna,
this volume aims to shed light on the historical, political, cultural and
socio-economic development of the region.

Scholars from within and outside Central Asia discuss a wide range of 
topics. By
employing an interdisciplinary exchange of recent research results the two
volumes offer an excellent insight into the current state of the art of 
Central
Asian studies. At the same this publication allows a better 
understanding of the
reconfigurations and ruptures associated with the current transformation
processes in Central Asia, which, however, are embedded in a long-standing
history of cultural and economic exchanges.

Among the topics highlighted in two volumes are contributions focusing 
on such
issues as state formation and national building, literary traditions, music,
arts, sports and games questions of identity formation, religious 
beliefs and
practices, forms of social and economic organization, human rights,
democratization, local and global politics.

About the editors:

Mag. Julia Katschnig studied Social Anthropology, Journalism, Spanish 
and French
at the University of Vienna.

Asst. Prof.Mag.Dr. Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek received an MA in Sociology and
Political Sciences and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Turkology and Islamic
Studies from the University of Vienna. Currently she acts as the chair 
person of
ESCAS.

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Central Asia on Display
Proceedings of the VII ESCAS Conference
Editors: Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek and Julia Katschnig

Volume I

"Geleitwort"
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Table of Content

Introduction
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek and Julia Katschnig

Opening Speech of the Conference
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Chapter I: Processes of State Formation and Nation Building in Central Asia

Balancing 'Yasa' and 'Shariat' in the Shibanid-Uzbek Khanate in the 16th
Century.
Nurten Kilic-Schubel

The Emirate of Buhkara in the 19th and 20th Century: Reflections on 
Transition.
Suchandana Chatterjee

The Problem of Political Order in the Khanate of Khokand: Between 
Tribalism and
Patrimonialism.
Paul Georg Geiss

The Evolution of the Traditional Governing Elites of Kazakhstan within the
Russian Empire between the Middle of the 18th and the Beginning of the 20th
Centuries.
Irina Erofeeva

Frontiers, Hinterlands, Centers, Peripheries: Adapting to Changing 
Fortunes -
the Uzbeks of Afghanistan.
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek

Who was Ibrahim Bik?
Reinhard Eisener

Enlightening the People: The Practice of Modernity in Central Asia and its
Trans-Caspian Dependencies.
Turaj Atabaki

History in Uzbekistan (1989-1999).
Azim M. Malikov

Chapter II: Cultural Manifestations in Central Asian: Literary Traditions,
Music, Arts, Sports and Games, Archaeology

Nomadic Culture in Written and Oral Epic Traditions.
Irina Y. Morozova

The Poetry of Nomads and Shaybani Rulers in the Process of Transition to a
Settled Society.
Aftandil Erkinov

Afghanistan's Smashed Mirror: What do Afghans say of themselves and of the
tragedy which has stricken their land?
Philippe Frison

Qutb Al Din Al Shirazi about Musical Instruments.
Iroda Dadadjanova

Interrelations between Indian and Central Asian Music (11-19 centuries).
Dilorom Karomat

The Role of Contemporary Uzbek To'y Music in Reinforcing Traditional Central
Asian Muslim Values.
Craig Macrae

Georgian Painters in Central Asia.
Grigol Beradze

Central Asian Medieval Costume : Milestones of its Evolution (XII-XVII cc).
Mukaddima M.Ashrafi

Kazakh Applied Art: the Problems of Cultural Interrelations
Shaizada Tohtabayeva

The Sporting Contests and Games of the Peoples of Central Asia.
Roziya G. Mukminova

Chess Along the Silk Road.
Gerhard Josten

Chapter III: Multiculturalism: The National, the Regional, the Global in the
Cultures of the Central Asian Region

Multilingualism in Modern Tashkent.
Vladimir M. Alpatov

The Participation of Slavic Rural Inhabitants in the Ritual Life of Uzbek
Communities.
Olga Brusina

The View from the Top: The Changing Hierarchy of Identities in 
Kazakhstan's 1999
Census.
Peter Sinnott

Reversion of Mongolian Script: a Revival of Self-Consciousness of the 
Mongols of
a Political Campaign?
Elena Boikova

Some Evidence on the History and Language of the Arabs of Central Asia.
Guram Chikovani

Identities in the Flux: the Mirror of Popular Culture. Kazakh Cinema at 
the End
of the Twentieth Century.
Azade-Ayse Rorlich

Korean Business and Culture in Former Soviet Central Asia.
Birgit N. Schlyter

Chapter IV: Religion and Society: Religious Beliefs and Practices

Shamanism in Mongolia and in New Age Movements.
Judith Schlehe

Ritual Practice of Sufi Communities in Mavara'annahr (18th-19th centuries).
Bakhtiyar Babadjanov and Sanjar Ghulamov

Islam in Uighur Society as Recorded by Chinese Gazetteers in the late Qing
Dynasty.
Jianping Wang

The Micropolitics of a Pilgrimage.
Ildiko Beller-Hann

Spiritual Bonds- Symbols of the Hereafter: Gender-Images in the Religious
Practice of Women in Uzbekistan.
Caroline Antonia Wilcke

Central Asian Context for the Khivan Mennonites Story.
Dov Yaroshevski

Between politics and religion: The Christian Movements in Post-Soviet 
Central
Asia.
Sebastien Peyrouse

Chapter V: Economy and Politics in Central Asia

Notes on the Differences between Bedouin and Inner Asiatic Nomadism.
Zimonyi Istvan

The Struggle for Land on the Kazak Steppe at the Beginning of the Twentieth
Century.
Gulnar Kendirbai

Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia.
Peter Finke

Austria's relations with Central Asia.
Heidemaria Gurer

Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democratisation in Turkmenistan: The Role 
of the
OSCE.
Paul Ullmann

The Foreign Policy Making in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan.
Rafis Abazov

Eurasian Security and Geopolitics. Conflict and Cooperation since the 
End of the
Cold War.
Mustafa Aydin

Central Asia and China the Changing Equations.
Prof. K. Warikoo

Short c.v. of contributors


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