Metadata

identifier

ab0fc591-2e05-4656-8804-ec62edaac75e

creator

Eric D Thrift

type

Collection

coverage

Inner Asia

description

Maps and documents connected with various definitions of “Inner Asia” as a culture area. These are collected mainly from academic institutions that focus on the study of Inner Asia.

publisher

Culture and Development Research Centre

subject

Inner Asia

culture areas

maps

date

2017

Items

A Map of Western Tartary Drawn from the Survey of the Jesuits and Mr. Kyrillow's Map of the Russian Empire
Kitchin, Thomas

A fascinating 1747 European mapping of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin.

subject: Gobi, maps, silk route

Map of the Ethno-Linguistic groups of Central Asia
CIA; Wikimedia Commons User:Pmx

Ethno-linguistic map of Central Asia

subject: languages, maps

Approximate extent of the Eurasian Steppe grasslands ecoregion, and Eurasia cultural region
Wikimedia Commons User:Clivius; Wikimedia Commons User:Cp6; Wikimedia Commons User:Shattered Gnome

Approximate extent of the Eurasian Steppe grasslands ecoregion, and Eurasia cultural region.

subject: maps, rangeland

Map of Inner Asia
Sneath, David

“Much of northern China, Mongolia, and southern Siberia is rolling grassland, used since ancient times for raising livestock.

subject: GIS, Inner Asia, rangeland ecology

Tracking degradation from space
Sneath, David

Satellite image (Landsat, October 1989) of the border between the Russian district of Chita and northeastern Mongolia.

subject: GIS, Inner Asia, rangeland ecology

Map of the Gobi Desert
Cagé, Christophe

Map showing China, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and the Gobi region

subject: Gobi, maps

Map of Inner Asia (CIAS)
Thrift, Eric

Map of Inner Asia, locating the extent of the area studied by the CIAS at the University of Toronto.

subject: Inner Asia, maps

Map of High Asia
Thrift, Eric

Map of “High Asia” (French “Haute Asie”, Russian “Tsentral’naia Aziia”).

subject: Inner Asia, maps

Map of Inner Asia (MONDEA)
Thrift, Eric

This map shows the Mongolian areas of Inner Asia that are represented in the Mongolian Digital Ethnography Archive.

subject: Inner Asia, maps

Map of Inner Asia (SRI)
Thrift, Eric

Map of Inner Asia, locating the extent of the area studied by the Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, located at Indiana University in the USA.

subject: Inner Asia, maps

Witsen - map of Tartaria
Witsen, Nicolaes

Tartaria, sive magni Chami Imperium ex credendis amplissimi viri, Amsterdam 1705

subject: maps, Tartaria

Map of Inner Asia
MIASU

Map showing the region taken as “Inner Asia”, prepared by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

subject: Inner Asia, maps

How should Inner Mongolia be developed?Inner Mongolia: the dialectics of colonization and ethnicity building
Uradyn E Bulag

The Chinese regime, which has granted unified autonomy to the Mongols, has also instituted various mechanisms to undermine the Mongols as a viable community.

subject: Inner Asia

Where is East Asia? Central Asian and Inner Asian Perspectives on Regionalism
Uradyn E Bulag

“Attempting to observe Central and Inner Asia from North America or Europe is like looking through a glass that is badly refracted, or even like trying to view the invisible.

subject: Inner Asia, Regionalism

Introduction: The concept of Inner Asia
Sinor, Denis

If the continents of Europe and Asia are conceptual entities, Eurasia - the combined land mass of the two - is a physiogeographical one.

subject: Inner Asia, cultural ecology, history