Cultural Histories of Central Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Doraiswamy, Rashmi

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume examine the cultural exchanges and encounters that have occurred in Central Asia through a vast timeline that extends from the premedieval to the medieval and modern periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000780260
• Artikelnr.: 64552865

Autorenporträt

Rashmi Doraiswamy is Professor at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She was the recipient of the National Award for the Best Film Critic (1994). In December 2007, she was an International Observer for the Presidential Elections in Uzbekistan. She is the author of The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov in the '90s (Aakar, 2005) and Guru Dutt: Through Light and Shade (Wisdom Tree, 2008). She is co-editor of the book Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia (Macmillan, 2002). Her entry on 'Film and Literature (India)' has appeared in the Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. THE ARTS ARCHITECTURE 1. Central Asian Architecture: The Persistence of Pre-Modernism 2. Sufi Remains. A Kazakh Story of Today 3. Synthesis in the Sky MUSIC 4. The Fate of the Shashmaqom in Uzbekistan in the Twentieth Century VISUAL ARTS 5. The Syncretic Nature of Early Central Asian Art 6. Travelling Cultures LITERATURE 7. Ramayana and Alpomysh: Two Epics, Two Heroes 8. Manas: The Socio-Cultural Heritage of the Kyrgyz People 9. Literature in the Khanate of Bukhara in the Nineteenth Century 10. Abai: A Prophet of Renaissance, A Bard of Enlightenment CINEMA 11. The Encounter of Modernities: Cinematic Adaptations of Two Stories by Aitmatov II. NEW HORIZONS THINKERS, TRAVELLERS, EXPLORERS 12. Remembering Al Farabi 13. Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943): The Expeditions and the Collections 14. Kyrgyzstan in History: Accounts of Russians Scientists and Travellers TRAVERSING THE SILK ROAD 15. Shifting Frames: Cultural Crossroads of the Past and Present 16. The Silk Road Re-Visited 17. Reviving the Silk Route: Problems and Prospects