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<a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/index-en.html">Fascinated by the Orient</a> An exhibition of the letters, photographs and maps bequeathed to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by the great <a href="http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/creator/marc_aurel_stein.html.en">explorer, archaeologist, geographer</a> and <a href="http://www.siraurelstein.org.uk/wayindia.html">Sanskritist</a> Sir <a href="http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/lives-of-aurel-stein/">Marc</a> <a href="http://monkeytree.org/silkroad/stein.html">Aurel Stein</a>. Journeyer <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/10-alexanderthegreat.htm">in the footsteps of Alexander</a>, <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/08a-1st-centralasian.htm">explorer</a> of <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/08b-2nd-centralasian.htm">Central Asia</a> and <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/08c-3rd-centralasian.htm">West China</a>, surveyor of the <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/09-archaeologicalsurveyofindia.htm">antiquities of India</a> and <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/11-iran.htm">Iran</a>; after a long life of journeying through and studying central Asia, Aurel Stein found <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/12-afghanistan.htm">his final rest in Kabul</a>. He is also remembered for rediscovering the oldest dated printed book still in existence, a copy of the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html">Diamond Sutra</a> in <a href="http://dunhuang.mtak.hu/index-en.html">the caves at Mogao</a>. That the latter and many thousands of other manuscripts collected by Stein now reside in the <a href="http://idp.bl.uk/pages/collections_en.a4d">British Library</a> is of course, like his other <a href="http://stein.mtak.hu/en/00c-message.htm">'treasure hunting'</a>, not without <a href="http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/on-ancient-central-asian-tracks/">controversy</a>.post:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.88016Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:45:19 -0800AbiezerAurelSteinCentralAsiaarchaeologyexplorerSanskritorientalistIndiaIranAfghanistanChinaSilkRoadTurkestanGansuXinjiangKashmirKhotanGreatGameBy: Abiezer
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Also a <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/online_research_publications/sir_aurel_stein.aspx">nice set of scholarly articles at the British Museum's website</a>; those include <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/PDF/Stein%20Walker.pdf">a piece</a> <small>[PDF]</small> by one of Stein's biographers, Annabel Walker, that includes the following on the contradictions of his life:<blockquote>The third contradiction is the idea of the boring man leading an exciting life. One reviewer of my book described Stein as having 'all the allure of an Edwardian chartered accountant'.</blockquote>comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.88016-2888331Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:49:12 -0800AbiezerBy: Phanx
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Great post. I think I would acquit on the pragmatic grounds mentioned in the controversy link, ie that "the manuscripts that were sent to London and Paris were catalogued, preserved, published and generally rescued for the world, and those that were not, for the most part were lost."comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.88016-2888412Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:39:41 -0800PhanxBy: Abiezer
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There's probably a good post to be made about Hungarian 'Orientalism' in general - first became aware of it because as a student dipped into the first Tibetan-English dictionary which was the work of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_K%C5%91r%C3%B6si_Csoma">Alexander Csoma de Kőrös</a> (also subject of a <a href="http://csoma.mtak.hu/en/csoma-elete.htm">nice web presentation by the Hungarian Academy</a>), completed whilst hanging out at a lamasery in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanskar">Zanskar</a>. Seems there was a movement to trace the origins of the Magyar back to Central Asia linked to the resurgence of national sentiment during the period of Hapsburg rule, though not something I know a great deal about.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.88016-2888673Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:33:28 -0800AbiezerBy: honest knave
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Great post. And thanks for the links on Hungarian 'orientalism'. A friend of mine from grad school did his PhD on similar trends among German alpine adventurers in Tibet. He gets to write fun titles such as:
<i>Nazis, Yetis and Cave-men in Tibet: Britishness in Boys' Adventure Novels, 1949-1957</i> (Thomas Neuhaus)
<i>Europe to the Asian Priests?: Science and Occultism in Travelogues of Interwar Tibet</i> (Thomas Neuhaus)comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.88016-2889001Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:02 -0800honest knave
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