Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia

Pauline Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would... Lees meer

From Belonging to Belief

Julie McBrien

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Baz... Lees meer

Polygynous Marriages Among the Kyrgyz

Michele E Commercio

• Hardcover | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• During Soviet rule, the state all but imposed atheism on the primarily Islamic people of Kyrgyzstan and limited the tradition of polygyny--a form of p... Lees meer

Under Solomon's Throne

Morgan Liu

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences. Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of... Lees meer

The Bukharan Crisis

Scott Levi

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia's Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffer... Lees meer

Learning to Become Turkmen

Victoria Clement

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life--in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and s... Lees meer

Practicing Islam

David Montgomery

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Mu... Lees meer

Tashkent

Paul Michael Stronski

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reima... Lees meer

Chaos, Violence, Dynasty

Eric McGlinchey

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• In the post-Soviet era, democracy has made little progress in Central Asia. In Chaos, Violence, Dynasty, Eric McGlinchey presents a compelling compara... Lees meer

Paradox of Power

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 26
• "State weakness" is seen to be a widespread problem throughout Central Asia and other parts of post-socialist space, and more broadly in areas of the ... Lees meer

The Force of Custom

Judith Beyer

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwester... Lees meer

Despite Cultures

Botakoz Kassymbekova

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensi... Lees meer

Central Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia... Lees meer

The State as Investment Market

Johan Engvall

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely cr... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876

Scott Levi

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting th... Lees meer

Entangled Itineraries

• Hardcover | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the gl... Lees meer

Living Language in Kazakhstan

Eva Marie Dubuisson

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 26
• Eva-Marie Dubuisson provides a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and... Lees meer

Speaking Soviet with an Accent

Ali Igmen

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 24
• Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the ... Lees meer

Stalin's Nomads

Robert Kindler

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh c... Lees meer

Toward Nationalizing Regimes

Diana T Kudaibergenova

• Hardcover | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these ne... Lees meer

Steppe Dreams

Margarethe Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context
• Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating... Lees meer

Nationalism in Central Asia

Nick Megoran

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 26
• Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory ... Lees meer

Azan on the Moon

Till Mostowlansky

• Paperback | Engels | Central Eurasia in Context | nr. 26
• Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rug... Lees meer