INTERESTS
Independent study, reading and long-term intellectual interests.
Beyond my professional work in science, technology and industry, I study a number of subjects independently and in considerable depth. This section brings together articles, reading notes, references and observations developed around those interests.
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William Irons and the Anthropology of the Yomut Turkmen
William Irons spent years studying the Yomut Turkmen of northern Iran. His work on kinship, nomadism, political organization and demography remains an important ethnographic record of Turkmen society during a period of rapid change.
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The Historical Origins of the Turkmens
An introduction to the historical formation of the Turkmens, from the early Oghuz confederations to the emergence of a distinct Turkmen identity.
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