items index
Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi
Hedin, Sven
A silent documentary made in 1928 of Swedish explore Sven Hedin’s expedition through the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
subject: Gobi, ethnographic film, expeditions, explorers
List of early Western explorers and travellers in Inner Asia
Thrift, Eric
Table listing principal Western explorers who investigated the society and culture of Inner Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
subject: expeditions, explorers
Central Asia from Peking to Yarkand and Kashmir via the Mustagh Pass: Illustrating the journeys of Captain F. E. Younghusband, Kings Dragoon Guards
Murray, John
A map showing the route of Frank E Younghusband on his trip from Beijing to Kashmir.
subject: expeditions, maps
Map of Evariste Huc’s travels
Dufour, H
Map accompanying “Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine”, Evariste Huc, 1850
subject: expeditions, maps
Map of NK Roerich’s Central Asian expeditions
Roerich Museum
Map showing the expedition routes of NK Roerich, from the Roerich Museum.
subject: expeditions, maps
Expeditions of Sven Hedin
Unknown
Map depicting the routes of Sven Hedin’s exploring expeditions, 1886-1935.
subject: expeditions, maps
James Gilmour of Mongolia : his diaries, letters and reports
Gilmour, James
James Gilmour was a Scottish Protestant missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in Mongolia and China, from 1870 until his death in 1891.
subject: diaries
Across Mongolian plains; a naturalist's account of China's "great northwest"
Andrews, Roy Chapman
A popular narrative of the second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1918-1919.
subject: expeditions
A Journey Across Central Asia, from Manchuria and Peking to Kashmir, over the Mustagh Pass
Younghusband, Francis
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863–1942) was an explorer and military officer.
subject: expeditions, geography
Through Asia, Vol. 1
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 2
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
subject: expeditions, geography
Aus Sibiren [From Siberia]
Radloff, Wilhelm
This book proposes a theory of cultural evolution, involving a passage from hunting to pastoralism and finally to agriculture. Radloff argues that Siberian culture was shaped by shamanism.
subject: cultural evolution
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years 1844-5-6, Vol. 2
Huc, Evariste Régis
subject: expeditions
Through Asia, Vol. 2
Hedin, Sven
[From the preface] This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897.
subject: expeditions
Путешествия Г.Н. Потанина по Китаю, Тибету и Монголии [Travels of GN Potanin in China, Tibet, and Mongolia]
Potanin, GN
Grigory Potanin was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian, whose work concerned Mongolian and Uighur language and culture.
subject: expeditions
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. 1
Przhewalskii, Nikolai
Two-volume report of Colonel Przhewalskii’s expedition in Inner Asia, sponsored by the Geographical Society of Russia.
subject: expeditions, geography
Original typed captions for photographs supplied by Tsui Yen Hu
Tsui Yen Hu
List of photographs taken and submitted by Tsui Yen Hu.
Tuvinian Lama-shamans: Some stories from Mongun-Taiga
Humphrey, Caroline; Mongush, Marina
English translation of a story told by Bair Surunovich Irgit (b. 1918), included in part in the film “Herders of Mongun Taiga”, concerning lama-shamans.
subject: Buddhism, divination, shamanism, stories
Field guide for Operation Raleigh researchers
Document providing instructions to fieldworkers (“venturers”) collaborating with the University of Cambridge through the Operation Raleigh Buryatia Expedition, 1993.
subject: research planning
Country research paper: Pastoral movement patterns of Mongolian herders and their socio-economic aspects
Erdenebaatar, B
Report on ethnographic fieldwork and a study of historical documents concerning mobility patterns among herders in Mongolia.
subject: mobility patterns, reports
Sample handwritten notes from ethnographic interview (English)
Telengid, B
subject: ethnographic interviews, fieldnotes
Notes on mountain worship practices in Hoboksair
Tseren, BP
subject: ovoo, mountain worship
Report on the use of remotely sensed data in the analysis of contemporary pastoralism in Inner Asia
Sneath, David; Humphrey, Caroline
subject: GVI, remote sensing
Completed ethnographic interview questionnaire from the Cambridge MacArthur project on a “rich herder” (redacted)
This is one of the field research questionnaires sent out with ethnographers working on the Cambridge ECCIA project, and reports information about a wealthier herder in one of the field sites.
subject: ethnographic interviews, questionnaires