Copyright
Nathan LightPublished On
2018-04-17Page Range
pp. 5-26Language
- English
Print Length
21 pages
Foreword
Chapter of: Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (pp. 5–26)
Contributors
Nathan Light
(author)Researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University
Nathan Light is a researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in the fields of Folklore and Anthropology from Indiana University in 1998. He has carried out field studies in Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang region of China since 1989, and published extensively on Central Asian history, narrative, performing arts, social relations and the economy. His current project 'Embedded in History' investigates the interrelations of historical knowledge and material and expressive practices in the Talas Valley in Kyrgyzstan.