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.