The Central Asian world /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Centring the anthropology of Central Asia / Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves
- Part I: Reverberating Legacies
- Ethnogenesis Through the Lens of Soviet Ethnography: Academic research in the service of nation-building and socialist modernity / Sergey Abashin and Matthew Naumann
- Lasting Legacies in Central Asia's Agro-Pastoralist Livelihoods / Jeanine Daǧyeli
- Aftershocks of perestroika: Tajikistan's flattened modernity / Isaac McKean Scarborough
- Struggling to interpret Islam in Central Asia: Religion, politics, and anthropology / Julie McBrien
- Decolonizing ‘the field' in the anthropology of Central Asia: ‘Being there' and ‘being here' / Alima Bissenova
- Utterly Other: Queering Central Asia, decolonising sexualities / Mohira Suyarkulova
- Part II: Solidarity and Struggle
- Qara Shangyraq: Searching for a Qazaq home between two worlds / Zhaina Meirkhan
- The Dvor and urban communities: Socio-spatial rhythms in Bishkek and other cities of Central Asia / Philipp Schröder
- Fighting back: The older working-class women's resistance against market forces in Kyrgyzstan / Elmira Satybaldieva
- Local political organization in Afghanistan / Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
- Daughters as Ojiza: Marriage, security and care strategies for daughters among Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan / Aksana Ismailbekova
- New churches and the religious freedom agenda in Kyrgyzstan / Noor O'Neill Borbieva
- Part III: Care and Interdependence
- Theorizing Central Asian neighbourhoods as social interdependence, state encounter, and narrative / Morgan Y. Liu
- Life and death in the margins: Care and ambivalence in southern Kyrgyzstan / Grace H. Zhou
- Bargaining over care and control: Money transfers and ICT-based communication in transnational families between Tajikistan and Russia / Juliette Cleuziou
- Outsourcing domestic care: Gendered labour mobility and ambiguities of Turkmen migrant work in Istanbul / Marhabo Saparova
- Part IV: Navigating the State
- Ethnicising infrastructure: Roads, railways and differential mobility in northwest China / Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
- Language choices, future imaginaries, and the lived hierarchy of languages in post-industrial Tajikistan / Elena Borisova
- Sonic statecrafting: The politics of popular music in Uzbekistan / Kerstin Klenke
- Before the law: Policy, practice and the search for the ‘Prepared Migrant Worker' in the transnational migration bureaucracy / Malika Bahovadinova
- Reeducation time: The banality of violent paternalism in Xinjiang / Darren Byler
- Part V: Persons, Healing, and More-than-Human Worlds
- The art of interpreting visionary dreams / Maria Louw
- Early childhood health care in rural Kyrgyzstan / Baktygul Shabdan
- Drunkenness and authority between animal and human worlds : On the partridge hunt in Tajikistan/ Brinton Ahlin
- Healing with spirits: Human and more-than-human healing agency in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan / Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka
- Part VI: Ethical Repertoires
- Legal pluralism in Central Asia: The customization of state and religious law in Kyrgyzstan / Judith Beyer
- Hospitality in Central Asia / Magnus Marsden
- Mobile livelihoods of Kyrgyz Tablighi Jamaat: Living between two worlds / Emil Nasridtinov
- The value of a dead miner: Industrial accidents, compensation and fairness in Kazakhstan / Eeva Kesküla
- Part VII: Everyday Moral Economies
- Who Owns the (good) land?: Cotton farming, land ownership and salinised soils in southern Central Asia / Tommaso Trevisani
- Changing pastoral livelihoods / Carole Ferret
- Small-scale gold mining communities in Kyrgyzstan: Torn between extraction projects / Gulzat Botoeva
- The Central Asian bazaar since 1991 / Hasan H. Karrar
- Halal as a site of dilemma and negotiation / Aisalkyn Botoeva
- Part VIII: Mobility and Migration
- The money of home: Remittances and the remaking of an Afghan transnational family / Said Reza Kazemi
- Gendered worlds and cosmopolitan lives: Muslim female traders in Yiwu and Dushanbe / Diana Ibañez-Tirado
- Informality and Uzbek migrant networks in Russia and Turkey / Sherzod Eraliev and Rustamjon Urinboyev
- Diasporas of empire: Ismaili networks and Pamiri migration / Till Mostowlansky
- Part IX: Material Culture: Performance and Skill
- Uzbek cinema as a lens on early Soviet state- and nation-building / Cloé Drieu
- In the blood and through the spirit: Learning Central Asian textile skills / Stephanie Bunn
- The differentiated authenticities of Rishton pottery in Uzbekistan / Haruka Kikuta
- Clans as heritage communities in Kyrgyzstan / Svetlana Jacquesson
- Uyghur subnational histories as meta-heritage / Ildikó Bellér-Hann
- The Uyghur twelve muqam and the performance of traditional literature / Nathan Light
- Part X: Sacred Worlds
- Using experience differently: Religion, security, and anthropology in Central Asia / David W. Montgomery
- Sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan as a phenomenon of power / Gulnara Aitpaeva
- Uyghur Islam, embodied listening, and new publics / Rachel Harris
- Mosque lives / Yanti M. Hölzchen
- Polyphonic afterword: Anthropology for Central Asian Worlds / Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves.