UID:
almahu_9949598629902882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 789 pages) :
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illustrations (chiefly color), maps..
ISBN:
9781003021803
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1003021808
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9781000875928
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100087592X
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100087589X
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9781000875898
Series Statement:
The Routledge worlds
Content:
"This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia. Established and emerging scholars of the region critically interrogate the idea of a 'Central Asian World' at the intersection of post-Soviet, Persianate, East and South Asian worlds. Encompassing chapters on life between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Xinjiang, this volume situates the social, political, economic, ecological and ritual diversity of Central Asia in historical context. The book ethnographically explores key areas such as the growth of Islamic finance, the remaking of urban and sacred spaces, as well as decolonizing and queering approaches to Central Asia. The volume's discussion of More-than-Human Worlds, Everyday Economies, Material Culture, Migration and Statehood engages core analytical concerns such as globalization, inequality and postcolonialism. Far more than a survey of a 'world region', the volume illuminates how people in Central Asia make a life at the intersection of diverse cross-cutting currents and flows of knowledge. In so doing, it stakes out the contribution of an anthropology of and from Central Asia to broader debates within contemporary anthropology. This is an essential reference for anthropologists as well as for scholars from other disciplines with a focus on Central Asia"--
Note:
Reverberating Legacies --
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Ethnogenesis Through the Lens of Soviet Ethnography: Academic research in the service of nation-building and socialist modernity /
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Lasting Legacies in Central Asia's Agro-Pastoralist Livelihoods /
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Aftershocks of perestroika: Tajikistan's flattened modernity /
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Struggling to interpret Islam in Central Asia: Religion, politics, and anthropology /
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Decolonizing 'the field' in the anthropology of Central Asia: 'Being there' and 'being here' /
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Utterly Other: Queering Central Asia, decolonising sexualities /
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Solidarity and Struggle --
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Qara Shangyraq: Searching for a Qazaq home between two worlds /
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The Dvor and urban communities: Socio-spatial rhythms in Bishkek and other cities of Central Asia /
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Fighting back: The older working-class women's resistance against market forces in Kyrgyzstan /
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Local political organization in Afghanistan /
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Daughters as Ojiza: Marriage, security and care strategies for daughters among Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan /
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New churches and the religious freedom agenda in Kyrgyzstan /
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Care and Interdependence --
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Theorizing Central Asian neighbourhoods as social interdependence, state encounter, and narrative /
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Life and death in the margins: Care and ambivalence in southern Kyrgyzstan /
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Bargaining over care and control: Money transfers and ICT-based communication in transnational families between Tajikistan and Russia /
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Outsourcing domestic care: Gendered labour mobility and ambiguities of Turkmen migrant work in Istanbul /
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Navigating the State --
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Ethnicising infrastructure: Roads, railways and differential mobility in northwest China /
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Language choices, future imaginaries, and the lived hierarchy of languages in post-industrial Tajikistan /
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Sonic statecrafting: The politics of popular music in Uzbekistan /
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Before the law: Policy, practice and the search for the 'Prepared Migrant Worker' in the transnational migration bureaucracy /
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Reeducation time: The banality of violent paternalism in Xinjiang /
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Persons, Healing, and More-than-Human Worlds --
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The art of interpreting visionary dreams /
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Early childhood health care in rural Kyrgyzstan /
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Drunkenness and authority between animal and human worlds : On the partridge hunt in Tajikistan/
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Healing with spirits: Human and more-than-human healing agency in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan /
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Ethical Repertoires --
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Legal pluralism in Central Asia: The customization of state and religious law in Kyrgyzstan /
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Hospitality in Central Asia /
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Mobile livelihoods of Kyrgyz Tablighi Jamaat: Living between two worlds /
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The value of a dead miner: Industrial accidents, compensation and fairness in Kazakhstan /
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Everyday Moral Economies --
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Who Owns the (good) land?: Cotton farming, land ownership and salinised soils in southern Central Asia /
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Changing pastoral livelihoods /
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Small-scale gold mining communities in Kyrgyzstan: Torn between extraction projects /
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The Central Asian bazaar since 1991 /
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Halal as a site of dilemma and negotiation /
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Mobility and Migration --
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The money of home: Remittances and the remaking of an Afghan transnational family /
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Gendered worlds and cosmopolitan lives: Muslim female traders in Yiwu and Dushanbe /
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Informality and Uzbek migrant networks in Russia and Turkey /
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Diasporas of empire: Ismaili networks and Pamiri migration /
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Material Culture: Performance and Skill --
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Uzbek cinema as a lens on early Soviet state- and nation-building /
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In the blood and through the spirit: Learning Central Asian textile skills /
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The differentiated authenticities of Rishton pottery in Uzbekistan /
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Clans as heritage communities in Kyrgyzstan /
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Uyghur subnational histories as meta-heritage /
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The Uyghur twelve muqam and the performance of traditional literature /
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Sacred Worlds --
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Using experience differently: Religion, security, and anthropology in Central Asia /
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Sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan as a phenomenon of power /
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Uyghur Islam, embodied listening, and new publics /
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Mosque lives /
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Polyphonic afterword: Anthropology for Central Asian Worlds /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Central Asian world New York : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367898908
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003021803
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003021803
