CZAPLICKA, Maria Antonina.`

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The Turks of Central Asia First edition, first impression, uncommon, of this study by the trailblazing Polish anthropologist. Developing themes from her Oxford lectures, she attacks the evidentiary basis of German-Ottoman Pan-Turanianism, arguing that the Turks of Central Asia descend from China's Xiongnu and have little in common with Ottoman Turks.Maria Czaplicka (1884-1921) devoted her academic career to north Russia and Central Asia. Following the publication of Aboriginal Siberia in 1914 - a study of the literature on the topic - she led an Oxford University-University of Pennsylvania joint expedition to the region to study the nomadic reindeer herders living north of the Arctic Circle. In 1916, following her return to Britain, she published an introductory account of her experiences (My Siberian Year) and was appointed lecturer in ethnology at the University Museum - a reflection of her status as one of the leading field researchers of her day. Inhibited, however, by renewed discrimination against women in British academic life in the post-war period, she committed suicide in 1921, a much-anticipated scholarly monograph on her Siberian explorations still unfinished.Czaplicka began studying at the LSE in the same year as her Polish compatriot, Bronislaw Malinowski, and played a small but important part in his rise to academic fame. In 1914, Czaplicka helped convince her Oxford mentor Robert Marett - the dedicatee of the present work - to fund Malinowki's plans for an ext

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