M H Sidky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4773781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M H Sidky |
| GIVEN NAMES | M H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidky |
| SIGNATURE | SIDKY M H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shamans and Mountain Spirits in Hunza
The Hunzakut, a high-mountain people in the western Karakoram mountains of northern Pakistan, possess a shamanistic tradition centered around religious specialists known as bitan. These practitioners inhale the smoke of burning juniper branches, dance to a special music, drink blood from a freshly severed goat's head, enter into ecstatic trances, and converse with supernatural beings. An ethnographic and historical analysis of this little-known s…
Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1
1993). Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1. Asian Affairs: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 131-144
The Bazaar of the Storytellers
"Malang", Sufis, and Mystics
Demographic and historical factors in Central Asia have produced an ethnic and cultural homogeneity, which overrides ecological diversity and artificial political boundaries imposed by nineteenth-century Western imperialism (KRADER 1963, 2). Ethnographically, Afghanistan belongs to the Central Asian region (Map 1), an area extending southward from the Siberian forest belt to the Iranian plateau, and southeastward to the Pamir mountains of norther…
Shamans and Mountain Spirits in Hunza
The Hunzakut, a high-mountain people in the western Karakoram mountains of northern Pakistan, possess a shamanistic tradition centered around religious specialists known as bitan. These practitioners inhale the smoke of burning juniper branches, dance to a special music, drink blood from a freshly severed goat's head, enter into ecstatic trances, and converse with supernatural beings. An ethnographic and historical analysis of this little-known s…
"Malang", Sufis, and Mystics
Demographic and historical factors in Central Asia have produced an ethnic and cultural homogeneity, which overrides ecological diversity and artificial political boundaries imposed by nineteenth-century Western imperialism (KRADER 1963, 2). Ethnographically, Afghanistan belongs to the Central Asian region (Map 1), an area extending southward from the Siberian forest belt to the Iranian plateau, and southeastward to the Pamir mountains of norther…
Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1
1993). Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1. Asian Affairs: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 131-144
The Bazaar of the Storytellers
"Malang", Sufis, and Mystics
Demographic and historical factors in Central Asia have produced an ethnic and cultural homogeneity, which overrides ecological diversity and artificial political boundaries imposed by nineteenth-century Western imperialism (KRADER 1963, 2). Ethnographically, Afghanistan belongs to the Central Asian region (Map 1), an area extending southward from the Siberian forest belt to the Iranian plateau, and southeastward to the Pamir mountains of norther…
Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1
1993). Irrigation and the political evolution of the high-mountain kingdom of Hunza1. Asian Affairs: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 131-144
Shamans and Mountain Spirits in Hunza
The Hunzakut, a high-mountain people in the western Karakoram mountains of northern Pakistan, possess a shamanistic tradition centered around religious specialists known as bitan. These practitioners inhale the smoke of burning juniper branches, dance to a special music, drink blood from a freshly severed goat's head, enter into ecstatic trances, and converse with supernatural beings. An ethnographic and historical analysis of this little-known s…
Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Shamanism (2 works) · Agronomy (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Bazaar (1 work)