Vol. 4 · No. 1 · 2000
The Long Walk I - Pastoral Nomads And Anthropology
An Interview With Anatoly M. Khazanov

Jeffrey C. Kaufmann

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Abstract

When I first asked Anatoly if he would agree to a publishable interview, an idea that we first talked about soon after Ernest Gellner's death, he agreed 'to help' me if a journal was interested, but, he added, it must not be an exercise in self-advertisement - a common flaw with which he is very uncomfortable. Indeed, as the author of more than two hundred and twenty articles and fifteen single authored or co-edited books - the best known in the West being Nomads and the Outside World (1984), After the USSR (1995), and, for those who read Russian, Sotsialnaia Istoriia Skifov. Osnovnye Problemy Razvitiia Drevnikh Kochevnikov Evraziiskikh Stepei (A Social History of the Scythians, 1975) - aggrandisement would be narcissistic.