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Author Kreutzmann, Hermann, author

Title Pamirian crossroads : Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia / Hermann Kreutzmann ; editors: Anne Beck and Sabine Felmy ; cartography: Bernd Hilberer and Markus Hauser
Published Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (559 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (chiefly color), portraits
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes many physical and historical maps and includes a bibliography of maps
Notes Includes glossary of important terms and toponyms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-551) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Kreutzmann, Hermann 1955- gnd
PAMIR gnd
Subject Population geography -- Pamir
Population geography -- Afghanistan -- Vākhān (Region)
Kyrgyz.
Wakhi (Asian people)
Borderlands -- Pamir
Borderlands -- Afghanistan -- Vākhān (Region)
Migration, Internal -- Pamir
Migration, Internal -- Afghanistan -- Vākhān (Region)
Human geography -- Pamir
Human geography -- Afghanistan -- Vākhān (Region)
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
Borderlands
Historical geography
Human geography
Kyrgyz
Migration, Internal
Population geography
Wakhi (Asian people)
Pamirsprachen
Kirgisen
Wachī
SUBJECT Pamir -- Historical geography
Vākhān (Afghanistan : Region) -- Historical geography
Pamir -- Maps
Vākhān (Afghanistan : Region) -- Maps
Subject Afghanistan -- Vākhān (Region)
Asia -- Pamir
Zentralasien
Asien
Genre/Form Maps
Form Electronic book
Author Beck, Anne (Editor)
Hilberer, Bernd, editor
ISBN 9783447194532
3447194537
344710449X
9783447104494
Other Titles Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia