Under Solomon's Throne : Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh.

By:

Liu, Morgan

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822977926

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under Solomon's ThroneDDC classification:

305.89/432505843

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DK917

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Interviews, Translations, and Transliteration -- Introduction: A City for Thought -- Chapter 1. Bazaar and Mediation -- Chapter 2. Border and Post-Soviet Predicament -- Chapter 3. Divided City and Relating to the State -- Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons -- Chapter 5. House and Dwelling in the World -- Chapter 6. Republic and Virtuous Leadership -- Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Summary: Morgan Y. Liu provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence.This study examines the culturally specific ways that Osh Uzbeks are making sense of their post-Soviet dilemmas. These practices reveal deep connections with Soviet and Islamic sensibilities and with everyday acts of dwelling in urban neighborhoods. Osh Uzbeks engage the spaces of their city to shape their orientations relative to the wider world, postsocialist transformations, Islamic piety, moral personhood, and effective leadership.Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.

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Morgan Y. Liu provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence.This study examines the culturally specific ways that Osh Uzbeks are making sense of their post-Soviet dilemmas. These practices reveal deep connections with Soviet and Islamic sensibilities and with everyday acts of dwelling in urban neighborhoods. Osh Uzbeks engage the spaces of their city to shape their orientations relative to the wider world, postsocialist transformations, Islamic piety, moral personhood, and effective leadership.Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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