Toward the horizon : Lennart Edelberg and the Danish Hindukush research /

Toward the horizon : Lennart Edelberg and the Danish Hindukush research /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Aarhus, Denmark] : Moesgaard Museum, [2021] ©2021
Description:	283 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Edelberg, Lennart. Edelberg, Lennart. Ethnology -- Afghanistan -- Nūristān (Province) Ethnology. Manners and customs. Research. Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan and Pakistan) -- Social life and customs. Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan and Pakistan) -- Research. Afghanistan -- Nūristān (Province) Asia -- Hindu Kush Mountains.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12773395

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Johnsen, Ulrik Høj, editor. Jones, Schuyler, editor. Funder, Torkil, editor. Kalash, Taj Khan, editor.
ISBN:	9788793251229 879325122X
Summary:	This book has two main objectives - to provide an overview of Danish research in the Afghan province of Nuristan, as well as to understand the scholar, collector, and man, Lennart Edelberg, who was crucial to its shaping. Ethnography as an academic discipline in Denmark was still in its embryonic stages, when Edelberg visited Nuristan for the first time in 1948 as a member of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia (1947-52). Parallel to his work as an upper-secondary schoolteacher in Ribe, Edelberg developed his work in Nuristan throughout the following decades. Through different perspectives from people who worked with him, or shared his research interests, the contributions to this book constitute a mosaic. This mosaic represents Lennart Edelberg, his research interests as well as their legacy for contemporary scholarship.

Description
Summary:	This book has two main objectives - to provide an overview of Danish research in the Afghan province of Nuristan, as well as to understand the scholar, collector, and man, Lennart Edelberg, who was crucial to its shaping. Ethnography as an academic discipline in Denmark was still in its embryonic stages, when Edelberg visited Nuristan for the first time in 1948 as a member of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia (1947-52). Parallel to his work as an upper-secondary schoolteacher in Ribe, Edelberg developed his work in Nuristan throughout the following decades. Through different perspectives from people who worked with him, or shared his research interests, the contributions to this book constitute a mosaic. This mosaic represents Lennart Edelberg, his research interests as well as their legacy for contemporary scholarship.
Physical Description:	283 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9788793251229 879325122X