Pamirian crossroads
Subtitle: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia
By: Hermann Kreutzmann ; editors: Anne Beck and Sabine Felmy ; cartography: Bernd Hilberer and Markus Hauser
Contributors: Beck, Anne (Editor); Hilberer, Bernd, editor
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9783447104494
Subjects: Population geography; Kyrgyz; Wakhi (Asian people); Borderlands; Internal Migration; Human geography; Historical geography; Maps
Other titles: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia
Description: Mapping the Pamirs and Wakhan mountain areas in High Asia, the author researches marginal border areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan and how they were used by the Kirghiz and Wakhi peoples over time. Both archival and published textual, photographic and cartographic resources are used to illustrate this exploration of remote Asian mountain areas in the context of boundary-making, crossroads, communities, and migration.
Notes: Includes many physical and historical maps and includes a Bibliography of maps.

Includes Glossary of important terms and toponyms.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-551) and index.