In Central Asia, the Gansu corridor bordering the Gobi desert and the Taklamakan desert provide much material for research both today and in historical times.
Siberian history is seen from a different perspective through the eyes of eighteenth-century travellers, who documented peoples, local knowledge and much more.
Ethnobiology studies the relationship between humans and their surrounding environment.
Articles:
- Chuvash. Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities 2005.
- Salt of life, salt of death. Salination of deserts in Central Asia and China. Tuz kitabı 2004
- The Central Asian-Chinese ethnic melting pot: the case of the Gansu Corridor. Post-Soviet Central Asia 1998
Book reviews:
- Review of Paul D. Buell, E.N. Anderson, Montserrat de Pablo Moya & Moldir Oskenbay, Crossroads of Cuisine: The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food. Studia Orientalia Electronica 2021. (Open Access)
- Review of Danielle Ross, Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. Studia Orientalia Electronica 2020. (Open Access)
Central Asian and Siberian ethnobiology (with Ingvar Svanberg):
- Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations, Studia Orientalia Electronica 2021. (Open Access)
- Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes inthe Lower Tarim Area, Ethnobiology Letters 2020. (Open Access)
- Frederick Hasselquist in Smyrna and Magnesia. Turcologica Upsaliensia. An Illustrated Collection of Essays 2020
- Glimpses of Loptuq Folk Botany: Phytonyms and Plant Knowledge in Sven Hedin’s Herbarium Notes from the Lower Tarim River Area as a Source for Ethnobiological Research (with Ingvar Svanberg and Patrick Hällzon). Studia Orientalia Electronica 2019. (Open Access)
- When is a foraging society? The Loplyk in the Tarim Basin. Hunter-gatherers in a changing world 2017
- Wildmen in Central Asia. Anthropos 2017
- Among fishermen and horse nomads: Johan Peter Falck in Russia and Siberia 1768–1774. Pioneers in European Ethnobiology 2014. (Open Access)
- Wild animals in Russian, Siberian and Central Asian households according to eighteenth-century travel reports. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 2012
- Gathering dog’s tooth (Erythronium sibiricum) in Siberia. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 2012
- Gathering food from rodent nests in Siberia. Journal of Ethnobiology 2010
- Loplyk fishermen: Ecological adaptation in the Taklamakan Desert. Anthropos 2010
- Sarana in Eurasian Folk Botany. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 2006. (Open Access)
German:
- Die mongolischen Schriften. Hieroglyphen Alphabete Schriftreformen (with D. Borchers) 2004
- Gansu. Das grosse China-Lexikon 2003
- Der Gansu-Korridor: Barbarenland diesseits und jenseits der Grossen Chinesischen Mauer: zum Nord-Süd-Dialog eines zentralasiatischen Gebietes 1996