Exploring Central Asia
Subtitle: from the steppes to the high Pamirs, 1896-1899
By: Esther Fihl ; [editor-in-chief, Ida Nicolaisen]
Contributors: Nicolaisen, Ida; Nationalmuseet (Denmark); Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project
Series: Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project; Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project (Series)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780295990002
Subjects: Ethnology; Catalogs; Description and travel; Nomads; Expedition; Nationalmuseet Kopenhagen; Antiquities; Kopenhagen / Nationalmuseum; Etnografica; Nationalmuseet (Denmark); Expedities; Kunsthandwerk; History
Notes: "The prime aim of this publication has been to present the rich museum collection of objects, known as the 'Olufsen Collection', which belongs to the National Museum of Denmark"--Vol. 1, p. [19].

Originally published: London ; New York : Thames and Hudson ; Copenhagen : Rhodos, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [682]-706) and indexes.

In English with summary in Russian.
Table of contents: title: vol. 1. Editor's preface : Danish nomad research, an overview ; Author's acknowledgements : a sketch of the research process ; Introduction ; Written sources and beyond ; The Danish setting in the 1890s ; travelling on a museum assignment ; Collecting objects ; The museum life of the objects ; Kyrgyz nomads in the Pamirs ; Agropastoralists in Vakhan ;  Catalogue; title: vol. 2. Turkmen nomads in Merv ; The Khanate of Khiva ; The Emirate of Bukhara and the Russian-controlled part of Turkestan ; Catalogue ; Representations of Central Asia ; Conclusion.