Drawing together distinguished international scholars, this volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs. It bridges a gap in our understanding of this group, an officially recognized minority mainly inhabiting the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, with significant populations also living in the Central Asian states. The volume is comparative and interdisciplinary in focus: historical chapters explore the deeper problems of Uyghur identity which underpin the contemporary political situation; and sociological and anthropological comparisons of a range of practices from music culture to life-cycle rituals illustrate the dual, fused nature of contemporary Uyghur social and cultural identities. Contributions by 'local' Uyghur authors working within Xinjiang also demonstrate the possibilities for Uyghur advocacy in social and cultural policy-making, even within the current political climate.

Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific)

Bellér-Hann, Ildikó

Cesàro, M. Cristina

Finley, Joanne Smith

Reference

Routledge

Turkish Region: Culture and Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology)

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast abutting the border with the Republic of Georgia. Recent developments have included the promotion of tea as a cash crop, disappointments in this market, and the opening of a border crossing to Georgia shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. These are analyzed in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubts about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Ataturk's republic.

Literature & Fiction

Hann, Chris

History & Criticism

James Currey

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast abutting the border with the Republic of Georgia. Regional developments have included the promotion of tea as a cash crop, disappointments in this market, and the opening of a border crossing to Georgia shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. These are analysed in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubts about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Ataturk's republic. Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. Allen

Format Hardcover Subject Ural Altaic Languages Publisher Bloomington Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies 1995

History of Cathay: A Translation and Linguistic Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Turkic Manuscript (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series)

History

Asia

Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies

Ethnicity, language, and religion are significant aspects of contemporary social identities in Turkey's little-known eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, the authors analyze recent economic and political developments in the region in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubt about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Atati 1/2rk's republic."

Turkish Region: Culture & Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Hardcover SAR Press))

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

School of American Research Press

Ethnicity, language, and religion are significant aspects of contemporary social identities in Turkey’s little-known eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, the authors analyze recent economic and political developments in the region in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubt about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Atatürk’s republic.

Turkish Region: State, Market & Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Paperback SAR Press))

<p>The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in recent decades. The Uyghurs are the easternmost people of the Turkic-Islamic civilizational belt that stretches across Central Eurasia. The incorporation of this population into the Chinese nation state has been fraught with difficulty. Central policies under socialism have fluctuated between generous encouragement of a distinct Uyghur identity and harsh repression justified with accusations of separatism and religious fundamentalism. Based on field research in the prefecture of Qumul in 2006-2009, this book explores how macro-level tensions are played out locally and regionally in the fields of actualized history and identity, social support and economic development, and the political regulation of socio-cultural life and religion.</p>

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs Between Civilizations (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia)

Social Sciences

LIT Verlag

The Past as Resource in the Turkic Speaking World (Istanbuler Texte Und Studien)

Arts & Photography

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

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