Tehran: Center for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2000. Articles include: Russia and the Crisis of Northern Caucasus; Karabakh Crisis: Developments; The Challenge of US Caspian Sea Oil Policy; Oil Pollution in the Caspian Sea; An Overview of Linguistic Issues in the Azerbaijan Republic; A Look at... More about Amu Darya: The Iranian Journal of Central Asian Studies Winter 2000 Vol. 4, No. 4
Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, 1968. 233 black and white plates plus tables and figures. Russian Translation Series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. III No. 2. 26 papers on the physical characteristics of in the inhabitants of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Plates are "mug shots" of men. More about Contributions to the Physical Anthropology of Central Asia and the Caucasus
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1977. Uncommon. With folding maps. "The author describes and analyzes the social and economic structures of tribal society [of Pakistan and Afghanistan] tracing, developing and explaining the customs and codes of Paktunwali ('the way of the Pathans') … This is the first authoritative work on the... More about Social and Economic Change in The Tribal Areas 1972-1976
Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1959. 2 maps. Extract from the Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie d'Egypte, t. XXXII. English text. Uncommon. More about Settlement of Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribal Groups in the Middle East
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1973. 48 tables 19 figures 13 black and white plates. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Monograph no. 52. Includes discussion on rug making and the production of herds. This "valuable study is a quantitatively documented account of the Yoruk of southeastern Turkey as they... More about Nomads and Farmers: A Study of the Yörük of Southeastern Turkey
Los Angeles: UCLA, 1981. 1 color plate 34 black and white. UCLA Museum of Cultural History exhibition catalog. Includes photographs and discussion of weaving and weavers. More about The Qashqa'i People of Southern Iran
Cambridge MA: Peabody Museum, 1966. Russian Translation Series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. III, No. 1. Many maps, charts and tables, and black and white figures and line drawings. Extensive writings on the paleolithic sites in the USSR, Andronovo culture, Kelteminar culture, hunting and... More about Contributions to the Archaeology of the Soviet Union: With Special Emphasis on Central Asia, The...
Geneva: International Labour Office, 1987. No illustrations. "Gunseli Berik's careful analysis of the carpet industry and the subordinate position of women weavers provides a vivid illustration of the limitations of certain of certain forms of employment on women's autonomy and status". -Publisher. More about Women Carpet Weavers in Rural Turkey: Patterns of Employment Earnings and Status
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Cambridge MA: Peabody Museum, 1960. Russian Translation Series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. 1, No. 2. Many maps, charts and tables. Discussions on the characteristics of Georgians, Daghestanis, Avars, Lezghians, Kazakhs, and the forest tribes of the Altai. More about Contributions to the Physical Anthropology of the Soviet Union [Caucasus
Uppsala: Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, XXXVI, 1972. More about Bazaar-e Tashqurghan: Ethnographical Studies in an Afghan Traditional Bazaar
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Graz: Akadem Druck- u. Verlagsanst, 1978. 40 color plates 41 black and white. GWO 1543. Some felts, reed screen in background of illustrations. German text. More about Die Kirghisen des Afghanischen Pamir [The Kyrgyz of the Afghan Pamirs
London/New York: Routledge, 2002. 49 black and white plates 56 black and white figures 13 tables. "Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the... More about Earth, Water, Fleece, and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding
Bangkok: Sangdad Publishing Co, 1989. 165 color illustrations and 2 maps. A history of the Chiang Mai region and the culture, attire, language, housing, ceremonies, and beleifs of the tribes including the Iu Mien, Karen, Akha, Lahu, Hmong, and Lisu. More about Chiang Mai and the Hill tribes
Xinjiang: Exhibition Centre of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 1984. 175 color plates. Material culture such as rugs, costumes, hats, musical instruments, and architecture are illustrated from this area of East Turkestan. Chinese-English text. More about A Picture Album of the Habits and Customs of the Minority Nationalities in Xinjiang, The Uygur...
Lanham: University Press of America, 1998. 26 black and white illustrations. "This book provides a window to the life and culture of the Kazakh people who live in China. The work summarizes Kazakh political history, social organization, ethnographical aspects of nomadism, linguistics, and Chinese national policy. To this array of... More about Kazakh Traditions of China
Hamburg: Reinhold Schletzer Verlag, 1979. 1 line drawing. GWO 2788. German translation of Russian works. Ponomorev on Turkoman weaving techniques, Karpov on genealogy and Tichonovitsch on Turkoman culture. More about Die Genealogie der Turkmenen (Turkoman Genealogy): Turkmenenforschung Band 1
London: Hali Publications Ltd, 2014. Hundreds of color plates. This is not about the tribal textile as in Tanavoli's other books. "SOFREH: The Art of Persian Celebration is a journey in words and images through the culture of Persian celebrations. Never before have the splendour and beauty of these ancient... More about Sofreh: The Art of Persian Celebration
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Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1962. 16 black and white. GWO 1585. A detailed study of the life and economy of this Central Asian Turkman tribe. "Konig’s study is in part based on library materials and in part on fieldwork. He has examined the economy and society of one group, the Teke, living... More about The Achal-Teke: The Economy and Society of a Turkmen Group in the 19th Century] Die Achal-Teke:...
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1963 (1971). Two folding maps. Vol. 26 of the Uralic and Altaic series from Indiana University. Comprehensive and scholarly. Third edition. More about Peoples of Central Asia
Leningrad: Nauka, 1978. 113 black and white illustrations including 33 of textiles. Russian text. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology collection of the household and material culture of the peoples of Central Asia, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus, collected from the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Balkarians, Kabardians and the peoples of Dagestan... More about Material Culture and Economy of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Kazakhstan:...
London: New Mildmay Press, 1947. 17 black and white plates. Missionary published book on the lands and people of India, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. More about India and Her Frontiers: Lands of the Himalayas
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998. "This work offers a study of the second largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan: the Hazaras. Largely Shi'ia by religion and Farsi-speaking, they traditionally inhabited Central Afghanistan, although were scattered across the country and into neighbouring countries as a result of the war. The Hazaras have recently... More about The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study
New York: AMS Press, 1959 (1971). 24 black and white plates. Reprint of the Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Russian Translation Series Vol. 1 No. 1. An archaeological investigation of the Central Asian region from the Upper Paleolithic to the first centuries AD. Includes discussion of the Pazyryk. More about Ancient Population of Siberia and its Cultures
Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1964. 135 black and white plus charts. Important three volume set of this 1927-1929 Russian study. Published as a part of the Russian Translation Series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 2 Numbers 1, 2, 3. More about Anthropological Composition of the Population of Central Asia and the Ethnogenesis of its People...
Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1964. 135 black and white plus charts. Russian study, 1927-1929. Published as a Russian translation series of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 2 Number 3. More about Anthropological Composition of the Population of Central Asia and the Ethnogenesis of its...
