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The Rabbit, the Duck, and the Study of Central Asian Legal Documents
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Thomas Welsford,
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October 26, 2012
Abstract
The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20th-century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an ‘evocative’ reading and then to an ‘antiphonal’ one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other.
Published Online: 2012-10-26
Published in Print: 2012-10
©2012 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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