Staff - 1st / 2nd phase of research

Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann

Since october 1999 researcher at the Centre for Oriental Studies, Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg • 1993–1998 Research Fellow, University of Kent at Canterbury • 1989–1991 Curator, Skilliter Centre, Newnham College, University of Cambridge • 1988–1991 External lecturer in Turkish, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge • 1988–1989 Research Assistant Islamic Bibliography Unit and Oriental and Near Eastern Department, University Library, Cambridge • 1989 PhD University of Cambridge • 1983–1989 Research Student Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge • 1975–1981 Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest: Turkic Studies, Archaeology, English.

Fieldwork: Turkey, Xinjiang (China), Kazakstan.

Selected Publications:

The Written and the Spoken. Literacy and Oral Transmission among the Uyghur. Berlin/Halle 2000 (ANOR 8).

The Peasant Condition in Xinjiang. In: Journal of Peasant Studies 25 (1) (1997), 87–112.

Narratives and Values. Source Materials for the Study of Popular Culture in Xinjiang. In: Inner Asia. Occasional Papers 1(1), Cambridge 1996, 89–100.

A History of Cathay. A Translation and Linguistic Analysis of a Fifteenth century Turkic Manuscript. Bloomington 1995, (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series 162).

Script Changes in Xinjiang. In: S. Akiner (ed.): Cultural Change and Continuity in Central Asia. London 1991, 71–83.