Ildiko Beller‐hann

Biographic Data

ID90542
NAMEIldiko Beller‐hann
GIVEN NAMESIldiko
FAMILY NAMEBeller‐hann
SIGNATUREHANN I B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kent
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS97
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • The Uyghurs: Kashgar before the Catastrophe

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2024

  • Introduction. Narratives from Xinjiang: Social and political significance

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-Hann et al.ARTICLEAsian Ethnicity2021Cited by: 2References: 10

    This special issue of ‘Voiced and Voiceless in Xinjiang’ explores the construction of historical and cultural narratives as a complex field of interaction between representatives of the state and minority elites in Chinese Central Asia, with a particular focus on the region known since 1955 as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). It shows how narratives, situated in their broader social, political and economic contexts, have been used in div…

  • From voice to silence: The shrinking space for Uyghur narratives of belonging in reform China

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLEAsian Ethnicity2021Cited by: 3References: 19

    Based on a close reading of three narratives, the article explores subtle shifts in the textual strategies employed by Uyghur intellectuals in Xinjiang in conveying identity discourses in different phases of the reform era. Although it is tempting to view these texts in terms of resistance, they are better approached as sites of accommodation, motivated by the wish to bolster a sense of Uyghur belonging without jeopardizing individual and communa…

  • The Great Dispossession. Uyghurs between Civilizations: Uyghurs Between Civilizations

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-Hann et al.BOOKGreat Dispossession2020

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in recent decades. The Uyghurs are the easternmost people of the Turkic-Islamic civilizational belt that stretches across Central Eurasia. The incorporation of this population into the Chinese nation state has been fraught with difficulty. Central policies under socialism have fluctuated between generou…

  • Hermann Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads: Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia

    Open AccessIldiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLENomadic Peoples2016

  • Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-Hann et al.BOOKSituating the Uyghurs Between…2016Cited by: 23References: 1

    This volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs, an officially recognised minority mainly inhabiting the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, with significant populations also living in the Central Asian states. It seeks to bridge a perceived gap in our understanding of this group, which too often has fallen between two regional traditions of scholarship on Central Asia and…

  • Chronicling the Turfan expeditions: The German archaeologist Albert von Le Coq in Xinjiang

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLEStudies in Travel Writing2014

    Albert von Le Coq's archaeological exploits are well known from Peter Hopkirk's book Foreign Devils on the Silk Road. His name is not unknown among local people in Xinjiang (both Han Chinese and Uyghur) as one of those Europeans who “plundered” the region's heritage. One of a handful of like-minded and determined scholars who took part in the international race to appropriate the ancient treasures of this region, Le Coq's interests went beyond pr…

  • On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

    Trine Brox, Ildikó Bellér-Hann et al.BOOKOn the Fringes of the Harmonious…2014

    Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic members of the PRC’s great family of peoples and been the targets of ‘carrot and stick’ measures designed

  • Feudal villains or just rulers? The contestation of historical narratives in eastern Xinjiang

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLECentral Asian Survey2012Cited by: 1References: 11

    Focusing on representations of the Muslim dynasty that exercised power locally under the Qing dynasty until 1930 in the oasis of Qumul in eastern Xinjiang, this article challenges the binary notions of ‘official’ versus ‘unofficial’ discourse by looking at the production of historical knowledge on the ground. Versions of local histories are communicated both in censored publications and in informally transmitted oral narratives, which are not ind…

  • Glossary Of Frequently Used Turki/Uyghur Terms

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    This glossary section contains a list of frequently used Turki/Uyghur terms that occur in this book Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880?1949. The book is about the modern Uyghur, an ethnic group living in the far northwest of the People?s Republic of China. It offers an overview of agricultural production, other economic activities, and redistribution mechanisms before the socialist era. The discussion focuses on access to resources by different s…

  • Chapter Four. Regulating Social Relations: The Force Of Custom

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    Conflict could potentially challenge the communal cohesion of any interest group, including the household, kin group, neighbourhood or mosque community, but conflict could also threaten dyadic relationships of all sorts, including that between husband and wife. This chapter examines mechanisms of conflict resolution at all these levels, as well as the ideologies in which these were embedded; particular attention will be paid to discourses on gend…

  • Chapter Two. Place And People

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is situated in the far north-west of the People?s Republic of China (PRC). Almost two-thirds of the total area is constituted by uninhabitable desert and high mountains. The full political unification of the region was first achieved under the Qing dynasty in the eighteenth century. The many names given to the region and its diverse geographical features reflect the diversity of the linguistic, religio…

  • Chapter Six. Religion, Islamic Institutions And Dealing With The Supernatural

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    Prior to the arrival of Islam into the region, Eastern Turkestanis had encountered a number of diverse religions, including Manicheism, Buddhism and Nestorian Christianity. Eastern Turkestan was both a target area for Islamic expansion and a transmitter of this world religion into China proper. This chapter shows that religious rituals were both expressions of belief and instrumental in making and maintaining community. Continuity was also favour…

  • Chapter Five. The Life Cycle

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    As in other predominantly agricultural societies, in Eastern Turkestan, too, everyday life was punctuated by events of the life cycle. These rituals were both important vehicles for making and maintaining community and occasions for reciprocal exchange. Life-cycle rituals also involved individuals with whom kinship ties were loose or even non-existent. In contrast to religious rituals, the timing of which was prescribed by the Islamic calendar, l…

  • Chapter Three. Economic And Social Organization

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

    This chapter explains various types of boundary drawing, which simultaneously created a sense of exclusion and inclusion. In considering stereotypical representations it has been shown that, while oasis identity was important, it did not always trump other types and levels of local identity. Just as modern identities cannot be reduced to ethnicity alone, boundaries between groups were drawn along religious, linguistic, residential, gender, social…

  • Chapter Seven. Conclusion

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannCHAPTERCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008

  • Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannBOOKCommunity matters in Xinjiang,…2008Cited by: 34

    Based on a wide range of Western and local materials, this book offers an introduction to the historical anthropology of the Muslim Uyghur of Xinjiang from the late 19th century to 1949. The author argues that social relations in this era were shaped at all levels by the principles of reciprocity and community. Particular attention is paid to the domestic domain and to life-cycle and religious rituals. This is the first time that Xinjiang has bee…

  • Hair-Raising Stories: The Trickster in Uyghur Oral Tradition

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLEAsian Anthropology2004Cited by: 2References: 7

    This article offers a new contribution to the literature on the Trickster. This ambivalent figure appears in the oral tradition of numerous groups all over the world—in East and West Africa, North and South America, and also in Europe, South Asia, China and Japan; but no materials have so far been available from Central Asia. The Uyghur Taz is only one of a number of Trickster-like figures in the Turkic-speaking world and in Central Asian oral tr…

  • Making the Oil Fragrant: Dealings with the Supernatural among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-HannARTICLEAsian Ethnicity2001Cited by: 10References: 7

    2001). 'Making the Oil Fragrant': Dealings with the Supernatural among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Asian Ethnicity: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 9-23

  • Rivalry and Solidarity among Uyghur Healers in Kazakhstan

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, Ildikó Bellér-HannARTICLEInner Asia2001Cited by: 2

    The article explores popular rituals among residents of a poor neighbourhood in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. It focuses on the activities of Uyghur healers who mediate between humans and the spirit world. These inspirational practices are so thoroughly intertwined with Islamic symbols and assumptions that simply to label them shamanistic is inadequate and certainly unacceptable to the actors themselves. The efflorescence of healing a…

  • A History of Cathay: A Translation and Linguistic Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Turkic Manuscript

    Robert Dankoff, Ildiko Beller‐hann et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1999

  • Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey and the United States

    Ildiko Beller‐hann, I Beller-Hann et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1999

  • Crafts, entrepreneurship and gendered economic relations in Southern Xinjiang in the era of ‘socialist commodity economy

    Ildiko Beller‐hannARTICLECentral Asian Survey1998Cited by: 2References: 4

  • B. Reviews and notes: Bibliographies and works of reference

    Paul Auchterlonie, David Jacobs et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…1997

    CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ARABES: DEUXIÈME PARTIE: MANUSCRITS MUSULMANS—TOME V, NOS. 1465–1685. Compiled by Yvette Sauvan and Marie‐Genevieve Balty‐Guesdon. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1995. 333pp. FF3000. THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF AL‐FURQAN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Edited by Yusuf Ibish, General Editor, and George Atiyeh. London, Al‐Furqan Islamic Heritage Fou…

  • Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor In Urban Turkey

    Open AccessIldiko Beller‐hannARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1997

    Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor In Urban Turkey. JENNY B. WHITE. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. xiv + 190 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, references, index