Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small

ISBN-13: 9781138784802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Robert L. Canfield; Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek

Opis

This text examines the perspectives and issues of variously situated populations in greater Central Asia with respect to four issues of general importance: government repression, ethnic group perspectives, devices of mutual support and informal grounds of authority and influence.

Spis treści

Part I, Repressions and their Consequences  1. Authoritarianism and Its Consequences in ex-Soviet Central Asia 2. Localism and Identity among the Uyghur of Xinjiang Part II, Ethnic Perceptions and Reactions  3. Central Asian Attitudes towards Afghanistan; Perceptions of the Afghan War in Uzbekistan 4. Alignment Politics and Factionalism among the Uzbeks of North-Eastern Afghanistan 5. Rebuilding Afghanistan  6. Pukhtun Identity in Swat, Northern Pakistan Part III, Devices of Mutual Support  7. Towards a Transnational Community: Migration and Remittances among the Hazaras 8. An Interregional History of Pashtun Migration, c. 1775-2000 Part IV, Mechanisms of Authority and Influence  9. Political Games in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Factions, Protection and New Resistances 10. Female Mullahs, Healers and Leaders of Central Asian Islam: Gendering the Old and New Religious Roles in Post-Communist Societies 11. Efficacy and Hierarchy: Practices in Afghanistan as an Example

O autorze

Robert L. Canfield is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis, USA.  His many publications include (as co-editor) Revolutions and Rebellions in Afganistan, and (as editor) Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective.

Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek is Associate Professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.