LECTURE READING LIST


Tarim Basin Mummies and Tocharian Origins
Speaker - James Mallory
The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Thursday, March 5, 1998 7:30 p.m. Stanford University

 
Adams, D. Q. 1984 The position of Tocharian among the other Indo-European languages, Journal of the American Oriental Society 104:399-400.

Barber, E. J. W. 1995 A weaver's-eye view of the second millennium Tarim Basin finds. Journal of Indo-European Studies 23:347-355.

Han, Kangxin 1994. 'The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang, China'. Sino-Platonic Papers, 51.

Huld, M. E. 1995 The linguistic position of Tocharian. UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Newsletter 5,1:12-13.

Mair, Victor H. 1995 'Prehistoric Caucasoid Corpses of the Tarim Basin'. Journal of Indo- European Studies 23:281-308.

Mallory , J. P. 1989 In Search of the Indo-Europeans. London:Thames and Hudson.

1995 Speculations on the Xinjiang mummies. Journal of Indo-European Studies 23:371-384.

1996c The homelands of the Indo-Europeans. In Archeology and Language: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations, R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.). London, Routledge.

Ringe, D. 1988-90 Evidence for the position of Tocharian in the Indo-European family? Die Sprache 34:59-123.


Indo-European Origins and the Agricultural Transition

Speaker - Marek Zvelebil
Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
Thursday, May 15, 1997 7 p.m. Stanford University

 
Anthony, D. W. The Kurgan Culture, a reconsideration.Current Anthropology 27 , 291-313. 1986.

Anthony, D. W. and Brown, D. The origins of horseback riding.Antiquity 65 , 22-30. 1991

Anthony, D. W. Migration in Archaeology: The Baby and the Bathwater. American Anthropologist 92, 4, p 895-914. 1990.

Zvelebil, Marek. "The Rise of the Nomads in Central Asia". In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology edited by A. Sherratt, pp. 320-3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1980.

Zvelebil, Marek and Peter Rowley-Conwy. "Transition to Farming in Northern Europe: a hunter-gather perspective". Norwegian Archaeological Review 17:104-128. 1984.

Zvelebil, Marek and Kamil V. Zvelebil. "Agricultural Transition and Indo-European Dispersals". Antiquity 62:574-583. 1988.

Zvelebil, Marek and Kamil V. Zvelebil. "Agricultural Transition, Indo-Europe an origins and the spread of farming." When Worlds Collide: Indo-Europeans and pre-Indo-Europeans. by T. L. Markey and J. A. Greppin, pp. 234-266. Karoma Publish. Ann Arbor. USA. 1990.

Zvelebil, Marek. Indo-European Origins and the Agricultural Transition in Europe. In Whither Archaeology Festschrift for E. Neustupny edited by M. Kuna and N. Venclova, pp. 173-203. Brown, Oxford. 1995.

 


The 1995 Mongolian-American Expedition to Egiin Gol, Mongolia

Speaker - Mark Hall
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Thursday, April 24, 1997 noon Stanford University

 
Askarov, et. al. "Pastoral and Nomadic Tribes at the Beginning of the First Millennium BC," in HISTORY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF CENTRAL ASIA,VOL.1 edited by A. H. Dani. Paris:UNESCO, pp. 459-468. 1992.

Barfield, T. J. THE PERILOUS FRONTIER: NOMADIC EMPIRES AND HINA. Cambridge:Basil Blackwell. 1989.

DiCosmo, N. "Ancient Inner Asian Nomads," JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 53:4, pp. 1092-1126. 1994.

Fairservice, W. ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN GOBI OF MONGOLIA. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. 1993.

Volkov, V. V. "Early Nomads of Mongolia," in NOMADS OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES IN THE EARLY IRON AGE edited by J. Davis-Kimball, et. al. Berkeley: Zinat Press, pp. 319-334. 1995.

Indo-Europeans and the Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes

Speaker - Professor Lord Colin Renfrew
Director, the MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Wednesday, April 16, 1997 7:00 PM Stanford University

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and F. Cavalli-Sforza, The Great Human Diasporas, Addison-Wesley, 1995

Renfrew, Colin, Archaeology and language : the puzzle of Indo-European origins, London : J. Cape, 1987; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Renfrew, Colin, "Origins of Indo-European Languages", Scientific American, 261:106-114


The Central Asian Kyrgyz People and Their Weavings

Speaker - Dr. John L. Sommer
President of the San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society
Trustee of the Textile Museum, Washington, DC
Member of the board of directors of the Textile Arts Council, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
Wednesday, April 2, 1997 Stanford University

 
Primarily Recommended:
Dor, Remy and Naumann, Class M. Die Kirghisen des Afghanischen Pamir, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstadt, Graz, Austria, 1978.

Feagre, Torvald. Tents: Architecture of the Nomads. Anchor Press, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1979.

Mateeva, Stella and Thompson, Jon. Patterned Reed Screens of the Kirghiz in the State Historical Museum, Frunze. Part I. Oriental Rug Review, Vol XI, No. 6; Part II: Oriental Rug Review, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1991.

Maximov, B., et al. The Kirghiz Pattern. Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, 1986.

Powell, Josephine. An argument for the Origin of Anatolian Kilim Designs.Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, Volume 3 Number 2, 1990, pages 50-60.

Rodgers, Mary M., et al. Kyrgyzstan, Then and Now. Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, 1993.

Sommer, John L., They Kyrgyz and Their Reed Screens, 1996, John L. Sommer. (ISBN 1-889666-03-3)

Secondarily Recommended:
Harvey Janet. Traditional Textiles of Central Asia. Thames & Hudson, London, 1996.

Kalter, Johannes. The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan. Thames & Hudson, London, 1984.

Keegan, John. A history of Warfare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1993.

Mackie, Louise, and Thompson, Jon. Turkmen, Tribal Carpets & Traditions. The Textile museum, Washington, DC, 1980.

Michaud, Roland and Sabrina. Caravans to Tartary. Viking Press, New York, 1977.

Szabo, Albert and Barfield, Thomas J. Afghanistan: An Atlas of indigenous Architecture. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1991.

Thompson, jon. Oriental Carpets from the Tents, Cottages and Workshops of Asia. Penguin Books USA, New York, 1993.

Tsareva, Elena. Carpets of Central Asian Nomads from the Collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. St. Petersburg (The Catalog of an Exhibition), Sagep Editrice, Genoa, 1993.

 


Genetic Origins of Central Asian Peoples

Speaker - Dr. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Professor Emeritus, Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Wednesday, March 5, 1997 Stanford University

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and W. Bodmer, The Genetics of Human Populations, Freeman, San Francisco, 1976

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and A. Ammerman, The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Population in Europe, Princeton University Press, 1984

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and P. Menozzi and A. Piazza, History and Geography of Human Genes Princeton University Press, 1994

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and F. Cavalli-Sforza, The Great Human Diasporas, Addison-Wesley, 1995

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and A. Piazza, "Demic expansions and human evolution", Science, 1193, 259:639-46

Cavalli-Sforza, LL and A. Piazza, P. Menozzi and JL Mountain, "Reconstruction of human evolution: bringing together genetic, archaeological and linguistic data", Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 85:6002-6006

Francalacci, Paolo, "DNA Analysis of Ancient Dessicated Corpses from Xinjiang", The Journal of Indo-European Studies, (Fall/Winter 1995), 23:385-398.

Goodheart, Adam, "Mapping the Past", Civilization, March/April 1996, pp. 40-47 [good introductory article]

Mountain at al., "Demographic history of India and mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity", American Journal of Human Genetics, 1995, 56:979-992

Ruiz-Linares, A et al., "Analysis of classical and DNA markers for reconstructing Human Population History", The Origins and Past of Modern Humans as Viewed from DNA, World Scientific, Singapore pp. 123-148

 


The Mummies of Xinjiang and the Archaeology of the Tarim Basin in Western China

Speaker - Dr. Dolkun Kamberi

Visiting Scholar
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, February 27, 1997 Stanford University

Adams Douglas. "Mummies" The Journal of Indo-European Studies, (Fall/Winter 1995), 399-413.

Hadingham, Evan. "The Mummies of Xinjiang" Discover 1994, 68-77.

Han Kangxin. "The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang, China" Sino-Platonic Papers, 51.

Kamberi Dolkun. "The Tarim Basin Mummies and China's Ancient Taklimakanian Civilization" The Newsletter of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. (Spring, 1996)

Kamberi Dolkun. Dissertation: "The Study of Medieval Uyghur Drama and Related Cultural Phenomena: From Mijorisimir to Outadghu Bilik ca. 767-1069 A.D.". (May, 1995).

Kamberi Dolkun. "The Three Thousand Year Old Charchan Man Preserved at Zaghunluq". Sino-Platonic Papers, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies University of Pennsylvania, January, 1994.

Mair Victor. "Mummies of the Tarim Basin" Archaeology, 48.2 (March/April, 1995), 28-35, 78.

Mair Victor. "Prehistoric Caucasoid Corpses of the Tarim Basin" The Journal of Indo-European Studies, (Fall/Winter 1995), 282-307.

Mallory J.P. "Speculations on the Xinjiang Mummies" The Journal of Indo- European Studies, (Fall/Winter 1995), 371-384.

Mallory, J.P. "In search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and My th". New York. Thames and Hudson. 1989.

Millward, James. "Spotlight on the Silk Road" Archaeology, 46.4, 24-25, 68.

 


Muslims in Mongolia: The Nomadic Kazakhs of the Altai Mountains

Speaker - Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Executive Director Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (Kazakh/American Research Center, Inc.)

Wednesday, January 29, 1997 Stanford University

[Prepared by Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball]

Olcott, Martha Brill, The Kazakhs, 2nd ed., Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University Press, 1995. Studies of nationalities, Hoover Institution Press publication 427 (A study of the Kazakh; research data from the Soviet archives. There is also a 1987 edition)

Donnelly, Alton S. The Russian Conquest of Bashkiria 1552-1740: A Case Study in Imperialism, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1968 (Included is some history of the Kazakhs, the Jungars, and others ethnic groups and their roles in the Kazakhs steppes during this time period)

Lattimore, Owen, Pivot of Asia; Sinkiang and the Inner Asian Frontiers of China and Russia, Boston, Little, Brown, 1950. (UC Berkeley) Main Stack DS793.S62.L3

Krader, Lawrence and Ivor Wayne, The Kazakhs; a Background Study for Psychological Warfare, [Washington] : George Washington University, Human Resources Research Office, 1955. George Washington University. Human Resources Research Office. Technical report ; 23 (UC Berkeley) Main Stack U15.G41 no.23

Imart, Guy. From "Roots" to "Great Expectations" : Kirghizia and Kazakhstan Between the Devil and the Deep-Green Sea, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1990. Papers on inner Asia ; no. 12. (UC Berkeley) Main Stack DK916.I499 1990

SOUND RECORDINGS

C 580051 Ocora. Mongolie, Chants Kazakh et Tradition Epique de l'Ouest [sound recording] Paris : Ocora : Distribution, Harmonia Mundi, p1993. (UC Berkeley) Music Lib. MUSI CD8369

558 660 Ocora. Mongolie : Chants Kazakhs et Tradition Epique de l'Ouest / Enregistrements Alain Desjacques. [sound recording]. Paris : Ocora, p1985. Musiques traditionnelles vivantes. I, Musiques de tradition orale. (UC Berkeley) Music Lib. MUSI L12242 Shelved: Accompanying booklet bound separately.

IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Margulan, A., KH. KAZAKHCKOE NARODNOE PRIKLADNOE USKUSSTVOK (KAZAKH PEOPLES FOLK ART) Vol 1, Oner, Alma Ata, 1986 (Text, summary in English, bibliography, and 219 illustrations)

Margulan, A., KH. KAZAKHCKOE NARODNOE PRIKLADNOE USKUSSTVOK (KAZAKH PEOPLES FOLK ART) Vol 2, Oner, Alma Ata, 1987 (276 illustrations in color and b&w)

KAZAKHSTANSKIE ETUOUIDY (KAZAKHSTAN STUDIES), Oner, Almaty, 1990 (A picture book with a short introduction in English, Kazakh, and Russian)

Mukanov, M.S. KAZAKHSKAYA YURTA (KAZAKH YURT), Kainar, Alma-ata, 1981. (Short English summary, glossary of terms, line drawings and many colored plates of felts, carpets and other textiles associated with the yurt.)

Feoktistov, A., RUSSKIE, KAZAKHI I ALTAI (RUSSIANS, KAZAKHS AND THE ALTAI) Moskva ; Ust-Kamenogorsk : Alfa i Omega, 1992. (UC Berkeley) Main Stack DK855.5.K3.F46 1992

Konovalov, A. V. (Aleksei Vladimirovich). KAZAKHI IUZHNOGO ALTAIA : PROBLEMY FORMIROVANIIA ETNICHESKOI GRUPPY (KAZAKHS OF SOUTHERN ALTAI: PROBLEMS IN THE FORMATION OF ETHNIC GROUPS), Alma-Ata : Izdatelstvo "Nauka" Kazakhskoi SSR, 1986. (U.C. Berkeley) Main Stack DK855.5.K3.K66 1986


From Camelot to Yamato - A Radical Reassessment of the Origin and Distribution of the Arthurian Legends.

Speaker - C. Scott Littleton, Professor of Anthropology at Occidental College.

Monday, October 14, 1996 UC Berkeley

Littleton, C. Scott, The New Comparative Mythology: An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumzil (Berkeley and Los Angeles: UC Press)

Littleton, C. Scott and Linda Malcor, From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail (New York: Garland).


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