Patrick Hällzon
Postdoctoral position in Turkic languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- E-mail:
- patrick.hallzon@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My main research areas involve Turkic languages (especially Uyghur and Eastern Turki but other languages as well), history of medicine (Eastern Turki medical texts), nature and landscape in an Eastern Turki context, mazar pilgrimage among the Uyghurs as well as various aspects of Uyghur cultural history.
Keywords
- turkic
- chagatai
- folklore
- uyghur
- eastern turki
- medical manuscripts
- mazar
Biography
2023- Three-year international post-doc supported by by the Swedish Research Council (VR) with the title: Oasis Life in Eastern Turkestan: The Matrix of Culture, Language and Landscape in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
2022- Teacher (selected courses) at Uppsala University
2022-01-29 Public defense at Uppsala University with PhD thesis entitled Languages of healing: Theories, practice and terminology within Eastern Turki medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2017-2021 PhD student in Turkic languages, Uppsala University
2013 MA (two years) in Asian Studies: Special focus on Central Asia. Department of Oriental Studies, South and Central Asian studies, Stockholm University
2012 MA (one year) in Turkic Languages. Uppsala University

Publications
Recent publications
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Caspian Tigers and Loptuq Activity Contexts in Eastern Turkestan
Part of Ethnobiology Letters, p. 34-43, 2026
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Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 149-170, 2025
- DOI for Human–Hedgehog Relationships in Turkic-Speaking Areas: Folklore, Linguistic Expressions and Medicinal Practices
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Part of Türk Tıp Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış, p. 35-50, Eğitim Yayınevi, 2024
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Part of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2024
- DOI for Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900
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Social and Economic Aspects of the Kuhmarim-Sehwalim Mazar in Khotan
Part of Inner Asia, p. 326-350, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Caspian Tigers and Loptuq Activity Contexts in Eastern Turkestan
Part of Ethnobiology Letters, p. 34-43, 2026
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Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 149-170, 2025
- DOI for Human–Hedgehog Relationships in Turkic-Speaking Areas: Folklore, Linguistic Expressions and Medicinal Practices
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Part of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2024
- DOI for Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900
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Social and Economic Aspects of the Kuhmarim-Sehwalim Mazar in Khotan
Part of Inner Asia, p. 326-350, 2023
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Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 38-61, 2022
- DOI for Ethnobotany and Utilization of the Oleaster, Elaeagnus angustifolia L. (fam. Elaeagnaceae), in Eastern Turkestan
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Fish and Fishing in Eastern Turkestan: A Contribution To Central Asian Ethnoichthyology
Part of International Journal of Uyghur Studies (Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi), p. 192-214, 2020
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Det uiguriska traumat och hotet om kollektiv minnesförlust
Part of Pen/Opp. Yttrandefrihet, litteratur och kultur. Publicerad av Svenska Pen, 2020
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Part of Studia Orientalia Electronica, p. 96-119, 2019
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Vad betyder ett manuskript idag?: Östturkiska medicinkällor i svenska arkiv
Part of Föreningen Fokus Kinas Tidskrift, p. 20-24, 2019
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Part of Izdinish Zurnali, p. 163-172, 2019
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Part of Fokus Kina, p. 58-63, 2017
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Med kameran i hand: betraktelser från Svenska Missionsförbundets arbete i Östturkestan
Part of Kinarapport, p. 4-13, 2014
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Kurash Sultan- en uigurisk singer-songwriter i Eskilstuna
Part of Tidskriften noterat, 2010
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Stepping onto Sacred Ground: The mazar in Uyghur day-to-day life
Part of Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, p. 87-121, 2010
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I Gunnar Jarrings Fotspår till Östurkestanska Mazarer
Part of Dragomanen, p. 230-239, 2008
Chapters in book
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Part of Türk Tıp Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış, p. 35-50, Eğitim Yayınevi, 2024
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Part of Dragomanen, p. 3-10, Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul; Föreningen Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner, 2020
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Mazar Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Swedish Missionaries in Eastern Turkestan
Part of Mazar:, p. 193-224, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press. Fuchu., 2016
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
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På Obanade Stigar, en bok skriven år 1917: en återblick hundra år senare
Part of Fokus Kinas Tidskrift, p. 64-64, 2017