Area of inquiry 06
Landscape & Place
Mountains, rivers, villages and sacred geography: how terrain shapes belief, settlement and belonging.
- Sacred geography
- Rivers
- Village form
- Cartography
Writing
Essay · EN
Between Mysticism and Revolution: The Poetry of Khomeini
Field Note · EN
The Ginger Garden
Essay · EN
Rivers and Lakes
Essay · EN
The Humid South: Miasma, Body, and Space in Southern China
Essay · EN
The Windcatchers of Hyderabad
Essay · EN
The Gap in the Smile: Ritual Tooth Extraction in Ancient China
Essay · EN
The Fasting of the Heart
Essay · EN
Iranian Jews and the Baha'i Option
Essay · EN
The Fifth Month and the Dragon Boats
Essay · EN
The Ashura She-Camel
Essay · EN
The Foundation of the Chinese Home
Travel Journal · EN
The Whole Village is Here
Essay · EN
The Eight Flavors of Beijing
Essay · EN
The Chinese Hamburger
Essay · EN
The Yellow Dragon
Essay · EN
The Arrival of Botany in China
Essay · EN
The Eid al-Adha Market in Kashgar
Essay · EN
A Cabbage at the Doorstep
Essay · EN
How Food Crosses Borders
Essay · EN
The Elm Coins of Spring Hunger
Essay · EN
The Chromium Myth of the Terracotta Army
Essay · EN
Yizhan: Notes from the Imperial Road
Field Note · EN
The Road to Heaven
Essay · EN
The Book of Swindles
Essay · EN
The Long Road to Spice: How the Chili Pepper Conquered China
Essay · EN
Ti-Yong and the Iranian Crisis
Essay · EN
The Lidai Fabao: Memory, Lineage, and the Living Dharma
Essay · EN
The Hall of Idleness
Essay · EN
Chinese Thought in a Fractured World
Essay · EN
Harmony, at Times, Comes Down to a Plate
Essay · EN
The Bone Shaker
Essay · EN
Not Gazing Enough at the Mountain
Essay · EN
Beyond the Five Pungent Roots
Travel Journal · EN
Immortals and Bunkers
Essay · EN
Dali’s Market Basket
Essay · EN
The Last Farmers of Dali
Essay · EN
The Seven Necessities
Essay · EN
Coffee and Tea at Heaven’s Gate
Essay · EN
Flowers in the Yunnanese Kitchen
Essay · EN
A Memory Map of the Beijing Metro
Essay · EN
Locusts on the Sabbath Table
Essay · EN
The Double Skies of Chinese Islam
Essay · EN
My Dad, the Dragon
Essay · EN
Today’s Bandits, Tomorrow’s Rebels
Research · EN
Journey to the Pamir Mountains: A Guided Tour (September 2021)
Essay · EN
Spies and the Twilight of Empire
Essay · EN
Of Tobacco, Bottles, and Birds
Essay · EN
Listen to the Reed!
Essay · EN
Faces of Eternity
Research · EN
The Way of the Three Treasures: A History of the Eunuch
Essay · EN
Khoja Nasreddin: The Art of the Border Crossing
Essay · EN
Invaders, Braids, and Borders
Essay · EN
The Skeptic of Khorasan
Essay · EN
The Tulip Cult of the Turks
Essay · EN
Doomsday Raki
Essay · EN
The Tamed Wild: Control and Artifice in the Classical Chinese Garden
Essay · EN
Vipassanā Vespers
Essay · EN
Whispers of Paradise: A Journey into Sufi Music
Essay · EN
The Way of Khoja Nasreddin
Essay · EN
The Purple Apples of the Tian Shan
Essay · EN
Thus Spoke the Old Camel Owner
Essay · EN
The Pichok: Central Asia’s Living Blade
Essay · EN
To the Sufis of China
Essay · EN
The King of Cuisines: Central Asian Plov
Essay · EN
Song of the Mad Lark
Research · EN
God’s Bonsai
Research · EN
The Solitude of the Empty Mountain
Research · EN
Exiles, Part II
Essay · EN
Of Rebels and Black Pots
Research · EN
The Caspian Tiger: A Ghost of Central Asia
Research · EN
Qurut: The Salty Soul of Central Asia
Research · EN
Forbidden Apricots in Xinjiang
Research · EN
The Archers of Islam
Research · EN
Nowruz: The Dawn of a New Day
Research · EN
The Tarim Mummies
Research · EN
Central Asia in Photos: The Lens of Max Penson
Research · EN
The Mosaics of Soviet Central Asia
Essay · EN
A Mouthless Crow and Crazy Clouds
Essay · EN
Demons, Ascetics, and the Black Pen
Essay · EN
Outlines of the Heart
Essay · EN
Architecture #3: Gates, Domes, and Eternal Tears
Essay · EN
Mongols, Cheetahs, and Slaves on Horseback
Essay · EN
Verses from Cold Mountain
Essay · EN
Zen Stones
Essay · EN
German Trenches and Parthian Shots
Essay · EN
Architecture #1: The Science of Mud
Essay · EN
A Sufi Imam at Chabad House
Essay · EN
When Asia Was the World
Essay · EN
Trees in Trays
Essay · EN
Moonlight Over the Brothel
Essay · EN
In the Gates of Turan
Travel Journal · EN
The Jewels of Badakhshan
Essay · EN
Caravanserais: The Strongholds of the Soul
Travel Journal · EN
A Thousand Celestial Meadows: Kyrgyzstan
Fieldwork
Expedition · Pamir · Tajikistan · Badakhshan · Summer 2022 · Completed
Pamir Highway 2022The high road through Badakhshan: fortresses, Wakhani villages and the roof of the world
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