The Central Asian World (Routledge Worlds) [1 ed.] 9780367898908, 9781032492179, 9781003021803, 036789890X

Table of contents :
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction: Centring the Anthropology of Central Asia
An Asymmetrical Field
Is There a Central Asia World?
Pathways Through the Book
Notes
Bibliography
Part I Reverberating Legacies
Chapter Two Ethnogenesis Through the Lens of Soviet Ethnography: Academic Research in the Service of Nation-Building and Socialist Modernity
Introduction
Soviet Ethnography in Central Asia
Ethnogenesis and Nation Building in Central Asia
‘Survivals’ of the Past and the Soviet Transformation of Central Asia
Conclusion
References
Chapter Three Lasting Legacies in Central Asia’s Agro-Pastoralist Livelihoods
Introduction
Of Sheep and Cotton: Fibres, Change and Continuity
Cotton
Sheep
Natures-Cultures in the Oasis and Their Reverberations
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Four Aftershocks of Perestroika: Tajikistan’s Flattened Modernity
Politics: Safarali Kenjaev’s Civil War
Economics: a Dacha in Hisor
Conclusion: Conflict Stretched and Reverberating
Notes
References
Chapter Five Struggling to Interpret Islam in Central Asia: Religion, Politics, and Anthropology
Introduction
Asad and ‘The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam’
Theorizing Islam in Central Asia
The Centrality of Practice in Asad’s Islam as a Discursive Tradition
Being a Soviet Central Asian Muslim
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Six Decolonizing ‘The Field’ in the Anthropology of Central Asia: ‘Being There’ and ‘Being Here’
Introduction
Being There and Being Here
Field as ‘Service’ and Field as ‘Discovery’
‘Field’ as Travel and an Expedition
Ethnographic Genres: Science Or Art
Conclusion
References
Chapter Seven Utterly Other: Queering Central Asia, Decolonising Sexualities
Introduction
Queering Central Asia
Decolonising Queer Studies, Queer Theory and Queer Activism
Utterly Other: a Collection of Feminist and Queer Science Fiction
Conclusion
Note
References
Part II Solidarity and Struggle
Chapter Eight Qara Shangyraq: Searching for a Qazaq Home Between Two Worlds
Introduction
The Meaning of Qara Shangyraq and ‘Homeland’
Ideals of Belonging and Experiences of Exclusion in Qazaqstan
The Performance of Aitys as a Vehicle of Distinction and Cohesion as ‘One Shared Nation’
Using Aitys Performance to Foster Solidarity and Friction
Unsettling: Remembering a ‘Home’ in Xinjiang While Experiencing a New ‘Homeland’
Notes
References
Chapter Nine The Dvor and Urban Communities: Socio-Spatial Rhythms in Bishkek and Other Cities of Central Asia
Introduction: the Prism of Iug-2 and Bishkek in the Mid-2000s
Neighbourhood Male Socialization
Institutions and Order
Demography and the Rural in the City
Gentrification and (Harmless) Newcomers
Alternative Spaces for Community-Making
Conclusion: the Prism of Urban Sociabilities in Bishkek and Beyond
Notes
References
Chapter Ten Fighting Back: The Older Working-Class Women’s Resistance Against Market Forces in Kyrgyzstan
Introduction
The Neoliberal Assault On Women
Three Case Studies
Resisting the Privatisation of Welfare
Land and Housing Resistance
Resistance Against the Financial Industry
Discussion of Older Women’s Political Agency
The Power to Speak Up
The Embodied Power of Motherhood
The Power of Feelings
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Eleven Local Political Organization in Afghanistan
The Formal Governance Architecture in Afghanistan
Building States On AstrotuRf
Informal Local Governance in Afghanistan
The Formal, Informal Gap
Notes
References
Chapter Twelve Daughters as Ojiza: Marriage, Security and Care Strategies for Daughters Among Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Introduction
Socio-political Background
The Anthropology of Kinship On Altruism and Human Cooperation
The Uzbek Marriage System
‘A Good Girl Does Not Go Out of the Mahalla’: Arranged Marriage
The Mother’s Brother (Uzb., Toga)
Dowry and Support for Sons-In-Law
Dynamics of Place in Marriage
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter Thirteen New Churches and the Religious Freedom Agenda in Kyrgyzstan
From the Soviet Era to Independence
Becoming Christian in Kyrgyzstan
Hostility
Explaining Hostility
Religious Freedom as a Political Project
Afterword
Notes
References
Part III Care and Interdependence
Chapter Fourteen Theorizing Central Asian Neighbourhoods as Social Interdependence, State Encounter, and Narrative
Introduction
Mahallas as Layered Places
Social Interdependence
State-citizen Encounters
Neighbourhood as Narrative
The Anthropology of Neighbourhood in Central Asia
Notes
References
Chapter Fifteen Life and Death in the Margins: Care and Ambivalence in Southern Kyrgyzstan
A Death in the Community
From the Cradle to the Grave
The Absent Mother
Alkash
Ambivalence and Care
Notes
References
Chapter Sixteen Bargaining Over Care and Control: Money Transfers and ICT-Based Communication in Transnational Families Between Tajikistan and Russia
Introduction
Family Bonding, Care and Intimacy in Tajikistani Families – Keeping a Sense of ‘family-Hood’ Despite Geographic Distance
ICTs, Money Transfers and Transnational Ties
Seeking Transnational Intimacy: a Challenge Framed By Local Norms and Values
When Caring Means Controlling: the Other Facet of Ubiquitous Transnationalism
Gender Norms and Remote Jealousy
Parent-child Relationships Under Pressure?
Do Transnational Families ‘Dissolve’ Within the Community? Collective Caregiving Between Russia and Tajikistan
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Seventeen Outsourcing Domestic Care: Gendered Labour Mobility and Ambiguities of Turkmen Migrant Work in Istanbul
Introduction
Feminisation of Migration in Central Asia
In-between Legalities
Availability and Mobility of Migrant Domestic Labour in Turkey
‘One of the Family’: the Domestication of Labour and (Re)drawing Symbolic Boundaries
‘Exi(gen)t’ Strategies and Knowledge Networks
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part IV Navigating The State
Chapter Eighteen Ethnicising Infrastructure: Roads, Railways and Differential Mobility in Northwest China
Introduction
Transport and Travel in Xinjiang
The Unplanned Effects of Infrastructure
Transport Infrastructure and Ethnicity
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter Nineteen Language Choices, Future Imaginaries, and the Lived Hierarchy of Languages in Post-Industrial Tajikistan
Introduction
Internationalist Past and Post-Industrial Present
‘This Is Not Our Language’: On the Emergent Hierarchy of Languages
Language Choices and Gendered Futures
Speaking Russian ‘Without an Accent’
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty Sonic Statecrafting: The Politics of Popular Music in Uzbekistan
Beards and Licences
National Independence Ideology and Patriotisation Policies
O’zbeknavo – an Institution for Estrada
Milliy Estrada
Nationalist Realism and the Workings of Milliy Estrada
Power and Impact
Responses to Milliy Estrada
Post-Karimov Estrada
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-One Before the Law: Policy, Practice and the Search for the ‘Prepared Migrant Worker’ in the Transnational Migration Bureaucracy
Introduction: the Force of Care
Looking for the Gaze: the Making of a Migrant Worker
Labour Market and Value
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Two Reeducation Time: The Banality of Violent Paternalism in Xinjiang
What Is State Paternalism?
What Is Campaign Time?
The Context of the Xinjiang Reeducation Campaign
Home Inspection Time
Checkpoint Time
Camp Time
Han Citizen Participation in Violent Paternalism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part V Persons, Healing, and More-Than-Human Worlds
Chapter Twenty-Three The Art of Interpreting Visionary Dreams
Introduction
Frameworks for Interpretation
Dreaming About Mecca
The Care of the Ancestor Spirits
Haunted By the Albarsty
Spaces of Possibility
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Four Early Childhood Health Care in Rural Kyrgyzstan
Introduction
The Health Care System in Kochkor
Medical Pluralism Reconsidered
Self-labelled Mother-Doctors
Lay Mother-Healers
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Five Drunkenness and Authority Between Animal and Human Worlds: On the Partridge Hunt in Tajikistan
Partridge Hunting and Its Enigmatic Appeal
Animal-human Relations On the Hunt
The Vicarious Partridge and Its Drunkenness
The Meaning of ‘Being Mast’ in Tajikistan
Drunkenness and Power Beyond the Hunt
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Six Healing With Spirits: Human and More-Than-Human Healing Agency in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Introduction
Living With Spirits
Healing With Spirits
Response to the Spirit Calling
Complex Relations Between Healers and Spirits
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part VI Ethical Repertoires
Chapter Twenty-Seven Legal Pluralism in Central Asia: The Customization of State and Religious Law in Kyrgyzstan
Introduction
The Rhetorical Emergence of Legal Pluralism
The Customization of Law in the Kyrgyz Aksakal Courts
The Customization of Shariat
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Twenty-Eight Hospitality in Central Asia
Introduction
The Anthropology of Hospitality in Central Asia and Beyond
Hospitality, Power and Surveillance
The Moral Ambiguities of Hospitality
The Commercialisation of Hospitality?
Conclusion
References
Chapter Twenty-Nine Mobile Livelihoods of Kyrgyz Tablighi Jamaat: Living Between Two Worlds
Two Fingers
Commerce
The Best and the Worst of Places
Avtorynok
Yakyn Inkar: Conviction and Rejection
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty The Value of a Dead Miner: Industrial Accidents, Compensation and Fairness in Kazakhstan
Theoretical Framework: Long and Short Cycles of Exchange, Compensation and Moral Economy
The History and Political Economy of Health and Safety in Mining
The Transformation of Compensation: Material Support Or Compensation for Moral Damages?
Fair Compensation: Money and Respect for the Reproduction of Society
The Long-Term Cycle and Ambiguous Fairness of Compensation
The Short-Term Cycle and the Unfairness of Compensation
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Note
References
Part VII Everyday Moral Economies
Chapter Thirty-One Who Owns the (Good) Land?: Cotton Farming, Land Ownership and Salinised Soils in Southern Central Asia
Introduction
Land Degradation and Cotton Oases in Central Asia
The Setting
Small Farms On Large Plots
Privatisation
Large Farms
Small Farms
The Future of Agriculture in Central Asia’s ‘Cotton Oases’ (And in Maktaaral)
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty-Two Changing Pastoral Livelihoods
Introduction
The Nomad Who Does Not Move?
Nomadism and Movement
The Shifting Pastoral Mobility of Central Asian Pastoralists
The Vagaries of Pastoral History Over the Past Century
Pastoralist Time
Collectivisation
Decollectivisation
Changes in Stockbreeding Techniques and Relationships to Livestock
Black Sheep and White Sheep
Relationships With Animals
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter Thiry-Three Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities in Kyrgyzstan: Torn Between Extraction Projects
Introduction
Conflicts and Tensions Around Gold-Mining Sites in Naryn
Resistance Against Formal Mining Companies and the Defence of Pasture Land
The CSR Policy: Issues of Transparency and Accountability
Mine-company Supporters: Caught Between Poverty Or a Debt Trap
Multi-layered Interests of Artisanal Miners
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty-Four The Central Asian Bazaar Since 1991
Foregrounding the Local: Context Matters
Globalization: Transnational Markets
Conclusion: Bazaars and the Global Neoliberal Economy?
References
Chapter Thirty-Five Halal as a Site of Dilemma and Negotiation
Introduction
‘Haram Food Makes You Aggressive’: Imagined Impacts of Halal Food On the Body and the Society
‘How Can You Say That Kymys Isn’t Halal?’ Halal as a Site of Dilemma and Negotiation
‘It’s Not Just About Food’ A Wider Cultural Repertoire About Good Actions
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part VIII Mobility and Migration
Chapter Thirty-Six The Money of Home: Remittances and the Remaking of an Afghan Transnational Family
A Family Goes Global
At the Crux of Transnational Family Matters: Money and Its Movements
Remittance Flows Down, Horizontal to and Up the Generations
Remittances Materialise Care
Remittance Disputes
Remittances Point to Where Home Is
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty-Seven Gendered Worlds and Cosmopolitan Lives: Muslim Female Traders in Yiwu and Dushanbe
Introduction
Muslim Cosmopolitanism
Long-distance Commerce: Gendered Worlds
Yiwu: a Muslim Male-Centered Trading Hub
Gulnora: Piety and Cosmopolitanism ‘Mix and Match’
Parveena: a World’s Wanderer
Conclusions
Funding
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty-Eight Informality and Uzbek Migrant Networks in Russia and Turkey
Introduction
Russian and Turkish Migration Regimes in a Comparative Perspective
Pulat’s Adventures in Moscow and Istanbul: Informality, Agency and Navigating Challenges in Precarious Migration Contexts
Concluding Remarks
Funding Acknowledgement
Notes
References
Chapter Thirty-Nine Diasporas of Empire: Ismaili Networks and Pamiri Migration
Introduction
Multiple Diasporas
Imperial Networks, Humanitarian Aspirations
Territorial Temptations in a Diasporic World
Conclusion
Epilogue
Note
References
Part IX Material Culture, Performance and Skill
Chapter Forty Uzbek Cinema as a Lens On Early Soviet State- and Nation-Building
Cinema to Unveil the Formation of Soviet Imperial State Structure
From Colonial to Nationalist Cinema
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Forty-One In the Blood and Through the Spirit: Learning Central Asian Textile Skills
Introduction
Changing Textile Skilfulness
Learning Through Practice
Homely ‘Apprenticeships’
Women’s Textile Skilfulness
Skilful Learning in the Bazaar
Guilds and the Sacred
Convergences and Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter Forty-Two The Differentiated Authenticities of Rishton Pottery in Uzbekistan
Introduction
The Beginning of the Search for ‘Authenticity’ in Rishton Pottery
Connecting to the Global Market: Rishton Pottery After Independence
Two Masters’ Search for Rishton Pottery Authenticity
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter Forty-Three Clans as Heritage Communities in Kyrgyzstan
Clans as Heritage Communities in Kyrgyzstan
The Rise of Clan Heritage Custodians
Genealogy Books as Heritage
Clans as Heritage Communities
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Forty Four Uyghur Subnational Histories as Meta-Heritage
Cultural Heritage and Local History
Vignettes Concerning the History of the Uyghurs and Kashgar (1989)
Symbols of Civilization: The Watchtowers of Qumul (2010)
An Island of Civilization (2011)
An Uyghur Regime of Historicity
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter Forty-Five The Uyghur Twelve Muqam and the Performance of Traditional Literature
Introduction
Cultural Models and Modernization of Maqom and Muqam
Modernizing Muqam Performers
Performance, Politics and Edited Canons
Making Muqam History
Recent Changes to Muqam Texts
Heritage Fever and Heritage Suppression
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part X Sacred Worlds
Chapter Forty-Six Using Experience Differently: Religion, Security, and Anthropology in Central Asia
Experience as Foundation
Anthropology, Islam, and the Context of Experience
Islam and Views On Security
The Uses of Experience
Notes
References
Chapter Forty-Seven Sacred Sites in Kyrgyzstan as a Phenomenon of Power
Introduction
Power Relations Are Always Local
Redesign of the Social Space
Kinds of Power in Sacred Sites
Forces Contesting Within the Sacred Geography
Gender Assymmetry as a Traditional Power Relation
The Power of “Manas”
Sacred Sites at the Core of Nation-Building
A Counter-Narrative at a Newly Emerging Sacred Site
Conclusion: Sacred Sites as Kyrgyz Heterotopy
Notes
References
Chapter Forty-Eight Uyghur Islam, Embodied Listening, and New Publics
Hearing the Qur’an in Arzu Style Restaurant
Listening to Religious Revival in Central Asia
Listening to the Recited Qur’an
Abdul Basit Comes to Aqsu
Salafi Sounds in a Sufi Ritual?
Sound and Territory
References
Chapter Forty-Nine Mosque Lives
Introduction
History of Islam and Mosques in Central Asia
Mosques in the Yssykköl Region
A Mosque Comes to Life
Mosque Life – ‘Where There Is Davat, Islam Grows’
Conclusion
Notes
References
Polyphonic Afterword: Anthropology for Central Asian Worlds
1. How Do You See the Anthropology of Central Asia Evolving? Where Do You See the Strengths and Weaknesses of Contemporary Anthropology in and of the Region?
Aisalkyn Botoeva
Stephanie Bunn
Sergey Abashin
Juliette Cleuziou
Yanti Hölzchen
Anon.
Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Till Mostowlansky
2. What Are the Current Challenges for the Anthropology of Central Asia? In the Particular Academic System in Which You Work, How and Where Is this Field Taught? What Obstacles...
Judith Beyer
Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Tommaso Trevisani
Sergey Abashin
Haruka Kikuta
Juliette Cleuziou
Julie McBrien
Philipp Schröder
Tommaso Trevisani
Baktygul Shabdan
Philipp Schröder
3. What Are Your Ambitions Or Hopes for the Future of the Field? What Are Perhaps the Silences Or Blind Spots...
Kerstin Klenke
Aksana Ismailbekova
Aisalkyn Botoeva
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