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Smithsonian Naturalist William Louis Abbott's Turkestan Expedition of 1893 and 1894
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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/centasiaj.59.1-2.0255
This paper introduces an important body of ethnographic, biological, and unpublished archival materials deriving from a collecting expedition to Turkestan undertaken from April 1893 to November 1894 by American naturalist William Louis Abbott (1860–1936). Beyond summarising the localities he visited in Turkestan, and the current organization and usefulness of his collections for research, the paper attempts to interpret Abbott's unpublished archival correspondence to assess his collecting focus, biases, and purposes, as well as his perspectives on contemporaneous events in Turkestan and in the neighboring Russian-controlled border areas (today's Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) into which he also briefly traveled without permission. The results of Abbott's work are having a positive impact on the anthropology, museums, and regional studies right into the 21st century.
美國科學家William Louis Abbott十九世紀末為了促進關於中亞民族學、生物學以及社會地理知識進行一趟探險旅遊。探險的結果就是大量的地方信息以及關於新疆與沙皇帝國塔吉克和吉爾吉斯地區的若干政治事變報告。Abott氏的貢獻也影響到目前的人類學、博物館學以及區域研究。
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