UID:
almahu_9949702100502882
Format:
1 online resource (348 pages)
ISBN:
9789004254190
Series Statement:
Brill's Inner Asian Library
Content:
Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. 'Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus offers new insights on a number of subjects relating to the social history of the region. It includes essays dealing with property relations, resource management, forms of local administration, the constitution of new social groups, the construction of identity categories, and an enquiry into the landscape of Islamic practices among the nomads.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material --
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Introduction /
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1. Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk Land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest /
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2. Managing Rural Landscapes in Colonial Turkestan /
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3. Who Should Manage the Water of the Amu-Darya? /
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4. High Rank and Power among the Northern Kirghiz /
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5. Performance and Poetics in Kyrgyz Memorial Feasts /
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6. Using Turki-Language Qazaq Letters to Reconstruct Local Political History of the 1820s-30s /
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7. A Month among the Qazaqs in the Emirate of Bukhara /
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8. Creating the Façade of a Despotic State /
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9. Fathers and Sons /
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Index of Islamicate Terminologies /
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Index of Persons and Social Groupings /
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Index of Places /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9789004248434
Language:
English
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