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Author Bellér-Hann, Ildikó

Title Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Notes on Transliteration and Place Names; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; 1 'Us and Them' in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Xinjiang; 2 The Uyghurs as a Part of Central Asian Commonality: Soviet Historiography on the Uyghurs; PART 2 UYGHUR CULTURE: ISSUES OF MUSIC, LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE; 3 Cultural Politics and the Pragmatics of Resistance: Reflexive Discourses on Culture and History
4 Situating the Twelve Muqam: Between the Arab World and the Tang Court5 Uyghur Literary Representations of Xinjiang Realities; 6 Hybrid Name Culture in Xinjiang: Problems Surrounding Uyghur Name/Surname Practices and their Reform; PART 3 SOCIO-CULTURAL PRACTICES; 7 Situating Uyghur Life Cycle Rituals Between China and Central Asia; 8 Shrine Pilgrimage and Sustainable Tourism among the Uyghurs: Central Asian Ritual Traditions in the Context of China's Development Policies
9 The Emergence of Muslim Reformism in Contemporary Xinjiang: Implications for the Uyghurs' Positioning Between a Central Asian and Chinese ContextPART 4 NEGOTIATION OF MULTIPLE AND HYBRID UYGHUR IDENTITIES; 10 Polo, Läghmän, So Säy: Situating Uyghur Food Between Central Asia and China; 11 'The Dawn of the East': A Portrait of a Uyghur Community Between China and Kazakhstan; 12 'Ethnic Anomaly' or Modern Uyghur Survivor? A Case Study of the Minkaohan Hybrid Identity in Xinjiang; Conclusion; Index
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Subject Uighur (Turkic people) -- History -- Congresses
Uighur (Turkic people)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cesàro, M. Cristina
Finley, Joanne Smith
Harris, Rachel
ISBN 9781351899901
1351899902