PUBLICATIONS ON CENTRAL ASIA BY
 
                      ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
                    University of Amsterdam
 
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Centrality of Central Asia
Amsterdam: VU University Press for Center for Asian Studies
Amsterdam (CASA), Comparative Asian Studies No.8, 1992, 68 pp.
 
also published in article form as
 
The Centrality of Central Asia                         
Studies in History,New Delhi,Vol.8,No.1,Jan-June 1992,pp43-122 
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Boulder USA, XXIV, 2,
April-June 1992, pp 50-82.
 
[The article versions are accompanied by critical comments by
Daniel Ballard (Paris), Thomas Barfield (Boston), Mansura Haider
(Alighar Muslim Univ.) and Lawrence Krader (Berlin), the latter
not in the abbridged version in BCAS, and a response by the
author].
 
ABSTRACT/CONTENTS
The period covered is about 1700 BC to 1700 AD. My purpose is ...
to help clarify the role of Central Asians in the history of
their neighbors, that is, their place in WORLD SYSTEM history....
I will  address a dozen issue, suggest some alternative or
tentative answers, propose four systemic structures [process of
accumulatin, core-periphery structure, hegemony-rivalry
alternation, political-economic cycles in all of the above] and
offer two conclusions. The twelve issues ... are:
 
1. the definitiion or location of CA
2. ecological and climatic factors
3. migratory movements
4. challenges to and responses by CA's neighbors
5. technological change
6. state formation
7. gender relations
8. ethnogensisis and ethnicity
9. religion
10.special nexuses
11.INTER-national trade
12.Inter-'national' political economic relations in the world
system
 
Bronze Age World System Cycles 
Current Anthropology  Vol. 34, No.4, Aug.-Oct.1993, pp 383-430 
[deals with Afro-Eurasia and includes Central Asia. Accompanied
by commentary by about a dozen archaeologists and others and a
response by the author].
 
On the Sik Road: An Academic Travelogue
in
Economic and Political Weekly [Bombay], XXV,46, 
Nov.17,1990, pp 2536-39. 
 
World History Bulletin [Philadelphia] VII,3, Fall/Winter 1990/91,
pp 7-11.