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04/14/20 Anthropology and Eurasia | University of St Andrews Anthropology and Eurasia View Online 217 items Key Readings (28 items) In the Soviet house of culture: a century of perestroikas - Bruce Grant, 1995 Book The silk roads: a new history of the world - Peter Frankopan, 2015 Book Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia - C. M. Hann, 2002 Book | Available in Library and as an e-book. The unmaking of Soviet life: everyday economies after socialism - Caroline Humphrey, 2002 Book Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003 Book Marx went away - but Karl stayed behind - Caroline Humphrey, 1998 Book Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites - Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016 Book The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: adaptation to closed frontiers and war - M. Nazif Mohib Shahrani, 2002 Book Living with herds: human-animal co-existence in Mongolia - Natasha Fijn, 2011 Book Reindeer people: living with animals and spirits in Siberia - Piers Vitebsky, 2005 Book Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia - Ildikó Bellér-Hann, 2007 Book Shamans and elders: experience, knowledge and power among the Daur Mongols - Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon, 1996 Book 1/21
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Key Readings (28 items)
In the Soviet house of culture: a century of perestroikas - Bruce Grant, 1995Book
The silk roads: a new history of the world - Peter Frankopan, 2015Book
Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia - C. M. Hann, 2002Book | Available in Library and as an e-book.
The unmaking of Soviet life: everyday economies after socialism - Caroline Humphrey,2002
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Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book
Marx went away - but Karl stayed behind - Caroline Humphrey, 1998Book
Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites -Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016
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The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: adaptation to closed frontiers and war - M. NazifMohib Shahrani, 2002
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Living with herds: human-animal co-existence in Mongolia - Natasha Fijn, 2011Book
Reindeer people: living with animals and spirits in Siberia - Piers Vitebsky, 2005Book
Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia - Ildikó Bellér-Hann, 2007Book
Shamans and elders: experience, knowledge and power among the Daur Mongols -Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon, 1996
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Everyday Islam: religion and tradition in rural Central Asia - Sergeĭ Petrovich Poliakov,Martha Brill Olcott, 1992
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Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory - Bruce G. Privratsky, 2001Book
The hundred thousand fools of God: musical travels in Central Asia (and Queens, NewYork) - Theodore Craig Levin, 1996
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Harnessing fortune: personhood, memory, and place in Mongolia - Rebecca Empson, 2011Book
Uncertain transition: ethnographies of change in the postsocialist world - Michael Burawoy,Katherine Verdery, 1999
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Fear and fortune: spirit worlds and emerging economies in the Mongolian gold rush - MetteM. High, 2017
Book | Available in Library and as an e-book.
Fieldwork dilemmas: anthropologists in postsocialist states - Hermine G. De Soto, NoraDudwick, 2000
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Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present - Jeff Sahadeo, Russell G. Zanca, 2007Book
Key Journals (4 items)
Central Asian Survey - Special Issue: Post-Soviet Islam: an Anthropological Perspective -2006
Journal
Inner Asia - Special Issue: Perspectivism - 2007Journal
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - Special Issue: The return to hospitality:strangers, guests, and ambiguous encounters - 2012
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Social Analysis. Special Issue on Cosmologies of Fortune: Luck, Vitality and UncontrolledRelatedness. - 2012
Journal
Important journals available online: (2 items)
Inner Asia - University of Cambridge. Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies UnitJournal
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Additional reading (2 items)
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Parker, 1963Book | (Soviet period and gulags);
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini, 2008Book
Weeks 1 and 2: Context and history (38 items)
Lecture 1 - Introduction: Who, what and where is Eurasia? (17 items)
Key readings: (9 items)
Region: (2 items)
'Eurasia’, ideology and the political imagination in provincial Russia. - C. Humphrey, 2002Chapter | Available in Library and as an e-book.
In the Soviet house of culture: a century of perestroikas - Bruce Grant, 1995Book | Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6
Time, memory, history: (3 items)
Introduction: Ethnographies of Historicity - Eric Hirsch, Charles Stewart, 2005Article
Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites -Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016
Book | Chapter 5
Creativity and cultural improvisation - Elizabeth Hallam, Tim Ingold, 2007Book | Introduction.
Additional readings (4 items)
Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book | Introduction and Chapter1.
Oriental enlightenment: the encounter between Asian and Western thought - J. J. Clarke,1997
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Book | Esp Chapter 2.
Time and the other: how anthropology makes its object - Johannes Fabian, Matti Bunzl,2002
Book | Chapters 1 and 2
Europe and the people without history: with a new preface - Eric R. Wolf, Noël L. Diaz,1997
Book | Introduction.
Histories and travellers’ tales (8 items)
The histories - Herodotus, 1998Book | Book IV.
Nomads of Eurasia - V. N. Basilov, 1989Book
The mummies of Urumchi - E. J. W. Barber, 1999Book
Turkestan solo: a journey through Central Asia - Ella Maillart, Dervla Murphy, 2005Book
The great game: the struggle for empire in central Asia - Peter Hopkirk, 1992Book
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order - Samuel P. Huntington, 2002Book | Chapter 1.
Visual Archive: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in Central Asia 1909-1915Webpage
Film 1 3-5.0pm Dersu Uzala. Kurosawa/Russia. Fiction film based on the memoirs ofRussian explorer Vladimir Arseniev on the Siberian frontier, where the explorer meetsGoldi hunter Dersu Uzala who guides them. Oscar winning classic!
Lecture 2 - Russian Empire, socialism and postsocialism (21 items)
Key Readings (10 items)
Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind - C. HumphreyChapter
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In the Soviet house of culture: a century of perestroikas - Bruce Grant, 1995Book | Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6
Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites -Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016
Book | Chapter 6
The case of Central Asia. - D. Kandiyoti, 2002Chapter
Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present - Jeff Sahadeo, Russell G. Zanca, 2007Book | Esp. Chapters 2, 7, 8, 10
The unmaking of Soviet life: everyday economies after socialism - Caroline Humphrey,2002
Book
The Sore Zones of Identity: Past and Present Debates on Funerals in Kyrgyzstan - SvetlanaJacquesson, 2008
Article
The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadicinner Asia - David Sneath, 2007
Book
The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt, 1986Book | esp. Introduction.
Ethnography as narrative - Edward M. BrunerChapter
Further Readings (9 items)History/memory/time
How societies remember - Paul Connerton, 1989Book
Socialism and Postsocialism in the region:
Marx went away - but Karl stayed behind - Caroline Humphrey, 1998Book | Esp Introduction.
Soviet and Western anthropology - Ernest Gellner, 1980Book | Introduction and Part I pp. 59-84.
Post-Soviet chaos: violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan - Joma Nazpary, 2002Book | Chapter 3.
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General regional ethnography:
The formation of Kazakh identity: from tribe to nation-state - Shirin Akiner, 1995Book | Chapter 4.
Central Asians under Russian rule: a study in culture change - Elizabeth E. Bacon, 1966Book
Klavdiya Antipina: ethnographer of the Kyrgyz - Bibira Akmoldoeva, John Sommer, 2002Book
Discussion topic: (1 items)
5 minute 30:30 presentation on the impact of socialism and postsocialism on oneindigenous community in this region. Eg for Buryatia (Humphrey), Sakhalin (Grant), orUzbeks (in Sahadeo). What understanding of 'history' is relevant for this subject? eg seeBruner, Hirsch, Kandiyoti, Fabian, Connerton, Vitebsky in Hann 2002, Gellner, Arendt.
Film (1 items)
Film 2. 3-5pm White Mountains, by Melis Ubuke'ev (Kyrgyz)
Weeks 3 and 4: Movement and settlement (42 items)
Lecture 3 - What is nomadism? Movement, animals, nature (19 items)
Key Readings (6 items)
Living with herds: human-animal co-existence in Mongolia - Natasha Fijn, 2011Book
Animal knowledge - S.J. BunnChapter
Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade - David G.Anderson, c2000
Book | Chapter 2 'The Number 1 Reindeer Brigade'.
Withdrawing from the land - P Vitebsky, 2002Chapter
Chiefly and Shamanist Landscapes in Mongolia - Caroline Humphrey
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Chapter
Editorial Introduction: Inner Asian Perspectivisms - Morten A. Pedersen, Rebecca Empsonand Caroline Humphrey, 2007
Article
Further Readings (11 items)
Humans and animals: (6 items)
From Trust to Domination. - T. Ingold, 1994Chapter
Domestic animal or serf: ideologies of nature in the Mediterranean and the Middle East - Y.Tani
Chapter
A science of friendly pigs - F. WemelsfelderChapter
How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement -Eduardo Kohn, 2007
Article
The companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness - Donna JeanneHaraway, 2003
Book
When species meet - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 2008Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Movement: (1 items)
Ways of walking: ethnography and practice on foot - Tim Ingold, Jo Lee Vergunst, 2008Book
General Ethnography: (4 items)
Horse Brands of the Mongolians: A System of Signs in a Nomadic Culture - CarolineHumphrey Waddington, 1974
Article
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: adaptation to closed frontiers and war - M. NazifMohib Shahrani, 2002
Book
Nomads of South Siberia: the pastoral economies of Tuva - S. I. Vaĭnshteĭn, CarolineHumphrey, 1980
Book | Esp Chapters 1 and 2.
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Nomads and the outside world - Anatoly M. Khazanov, 1994Book
Discussion topic: (1 items)
5 minute 30:30 presentation on What is perspectivism? Drawing on whole volume:Pedersen, M. Empson, R & Humphrey, C 2007 Inner Asian Perspectivisms. In Inner Asia 9(20070: 141-152) and whole volume.
Film (1 items)
37 Uses for a dead sheep Ben Hopkins, 2006. The Pamir Kyrgyz of Afghanistan migrated toPakistan and finally to Turkey to avoid repressive regimes. With Ben Hopkins, they maketheir own film about what matters.
Lecture 4 - Cities, settlement and social networks: from oasis bazaar tokolhoz ruinok (23 items)
Key Readings (11 items)
Oasis cities (2 items)
A Central Asian tale of two cities - M. LiuChapter
Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present - Jeff Sahadeo, Russell G. Zanca, 2007Book
Ideology and community (5 items)
Ideology in Infrastructure: Architecture and Soviet Imagination - Caroline Humphrey, 2005Article
Urban life in post-Soviet Asia - Catherine Alexander, Victor Buchli, Caroline Humphrey,2007
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
An archaeology of socialism - Victor Buchli, 2000Book
Ethics and Vernacular Architecture. - P. Oliver, 2000Chapter | Available in Library and as an e-book.
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Remembered Traditions and Lifestyles of Soviet Kyrgyzstan - Güljanat KurmangaliyevaErcilasun, 2010
Article
Social networks (2 items)
Household networks and the security of mutual indebtedness in rural Kazakstan - CynthiaWerner, 1998
Article
Everyday Islam: religion and tradition in rural Central Asia - Sergeĭ Petrovich Poliakov,1992
Book
Nomadic notions of home (2 items)
In a Mongolian tent - C. Humphrey, 1974Article
From the Domestic to the Divine - S. BunnChapter
Further Readings (9 items)
Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia - Ildikó Bellér-Hann, 2007Book
Uzbekistan: heirs to the silk road - Johannes Kalter, Margareta Pavaloi, Stefan B. Polter,1997
Book
Tajikistan: disintegration or reconciliation? - Shirin Akiner, Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs. Russia and Eurasia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs. CentralAsian and Caucasian Prospects (Project), 2001
Book
Social and family life of the Uzbeks - M.A Bikzhanova et al, 1974Chapter
Space in Nomadic Cultures – A Spatial Analysis of the Mongol Yurt - J. WasilewskiChapter
The Yurt in the Traditional World View of Central Asian Nomads - N.Zh. ShakhanovaChapter
The Shamans tent of the Evenks and the origins of the Shamanistic Rite - A, AnsimovChapter
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The Community Environment. - T. Insoll, 1999Chapter
The Berber House - Pierre BourdieuChapter | Part II, Chapter 5.
Discussion topic: (1 items)
5 minute 30:30 richly textured presentation of one city, eg Osh, Samarkand, Kashgar,Dushanbe, Astana. Highlight the changes in peoples' daily lives over the past 100 years ormore. Draw on Poliakov, Alexander et al, Kalter et al, Beller-Hann, Liu, Sahadeo et al andany other sources you can find.
Or debate: (1 items)
This house contends that the built environment can channel, and even determine sociallife.
Film 4. 3-5 (1 items)
The Angel on the Right by Djamshed Usmunov (Tajik) A migrant worker with a troubledpast returns to his home village in Tajikistan
Weeks 5 and 7: Belief (40 items)
Lecture 5 - Shamanism (18 items)
Key Readings (11 items)
Shamans and elders: experience, knowledge and power among the Daur Mongols -Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon, 1996
Book
Shamans in the City - Caroline Humphrey, 2002Chapter
Totemism, Animism and North Asian Indigenous Ontologies - Morten A. Pedersen, 2001Article
Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory - Bruce G. Privratsky, 2001
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Book | Chapters 5 and 6.
From cosmology to environmentalism. - P. Vitebsky, 1995Chapter | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Reindeer people: living with animals and spirits in Siberia - Piers Vitebsky, 2005Book
Chosen by the Spirits - V. BasilovChapter
Soul hunters: hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs - RaneWillerslev, 2007
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
When Good Luck Is Bad Fortune: Between Too Little and Too Much Hunting Succ... - 2012Article
The Three Duties of Good Fortune: 'Luck' as a Relational Process among Hunting Peoplesof the Siberian Forest in Pre-Soviet Times. - Hamayon, Roberte N., 2012
Article
Sharbek Amankul - 2 films on shamanism
Further Readings (4 items)
Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade - David G.Anderson, c2000
Book | Chapter 6.
The Shamans tent of the Evenks and the origins of the Shamanistic Rite - A. AnsimovChapter
Cosmological concepts of the peoples of the north - A. AnsimovChapter
A Muslim Shaman of Afghan Turkestan - Micheline Centlivres, Pierre Centlivres and MarkSlobin, 1971
Article | See also additional reading in course reader pack
Discussion topic: (2 items)
How does fortune relate to shamanism? Social Analysis, Special Issue:Cosmologies of Fortune Vol 56, Issues 1 and 2:
Special Issue: Cosmologies of Fortune Vol 56, Issue 1 - 2012Journal | E-journal + readings by High and Empson
Social Analysis: Special Issue: Cosmologies of Fortune Vol 56, Issue 2 - 2012Journal | E-journal + readings by High and Empson
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Film 5. 3-5pm (1 items)
The Story of the Weeping Camel by Byambasuran Davaa and Luigi Falorni. Mongolia. Amother camel will not acknowledge her young offspring. The film reveals the socialappreciation of the mother camel's needs.
Week 6. 26th October. Independent Learning Week (1 items)
No lecture or film.
Lecture 7 - Shamanism and … Islam … (9 items)
Everyday Islam: religion and tradition in rural Central Asia - Sergeĭ Petrovich Poliakov,1992
Book
The Communal and the Sacred: Women's Worlds of Ritual in Uzbekistan - Deniz Kandiyotiand Nadira Azimova, 2004
Article
Healing with Spirits and the Formation of Muslim Selfhood in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan -Johan Rasanayagam, 2006
Article
Central Asian Survey - Special Issue: Post-Soviet Islam: an Anthropological Perspective -2006
Journal
Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory - Bruce G. Privratsky, 2001Book
Shamanism and Islam: Sufism, healing rituals and spirits in the Muslim world - ThierryZarcone, Angela Hobart, 2013
Book
From shamanism to Sufism: women, Islam and culture in Central Asia - Razia Sultanova,2011
Book
Chiefly and Shamanist Landscapes in Mongolia - Caroline HumphreyChapter | See lecture 3 Key Readings for digitised copy.
Claiming an ancestral homeland: Kazakh pilgrimage and migration in Inner Asia -Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Anna Genina, 2011
Article
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Further Reading (11 items)
On some causes of the persistence of religo-customary survivals among the KhorezmUzbecks - G.P. Snesarev
Chapter
Sacred sites of Ysyk-Köl: spiritual power, pilgrimmage, and art - Aida Ėgemberdieva, G. A.Aĭtpaeva, Christensen Fund, Aĭgine madaniĭ izildȯȯ borboru, 2009
Book
Guardians of the faith: gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik Village - G. TettChapter
Everyday Islam in post-soviet Central Asia - Maria Elisabeth Louw, 2007Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
The archaeology of Islam - Timothy Insoll, 1999Book | Chapter 7.
Religious, National and Other Identities in Central Asia - A. Atkin, 1992Chapter
Political Islam in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan - Shahram Akbarzadeh, 2001Article
Re-Islamisation in Kyrgyzstan: gender, new poverty and the moral dimension1 - FaridehHeyat, 2004
Article
Social theory in the study of Muslim societies - D. Eickelman, J. PiscatoriChapter | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Mukadas's Struggle: Veils and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan - Julie McBrien, 2009Article
Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia - Ildikó Bellér-Hann, 2007Book
Discussion topic: (1 items)
5 minute presentation: Given its rootedness in scriptures, can there be an 'everydayIslam?'. Privratsky, Zarcone, Tett, Louw and Beller-Hann.
Film 6 3-5pm TBA
Weeks 8-11: Time and … (58 items)
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Lecture 8 - Oral epics – kinship, history, myth and song (21 items)
Key Readings (14 items)
The hundred thousand fools of God: musical travels in Central Asia (and Queens, NewYork) - Theodore Craig Levin, 1996
Book
Where rivers and mountains sing: sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond -Theodore Levin, Valentina Süzükei, 2011
Book
The past and the present: The power of heroic epics and oral tradition—Manas 1000 - EwaWasilewska, 1997
Article
Collective, communicative and cultural memories: examples of local historiography fromnorthern Kyrgyzstan - Roland Hardenberg, 2012
Article
Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites -Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016
Book | Chapters 5 & 8
'Introduction' in Local History as an Identity Discipline (themed issue of 'Central AsianSurvey') - Svetlana Jacquesson, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, 2012
Article
The genealogical construction of the Kyrgyz Republic: kinship, state and "tribalism" - DavidGullette, 2010
Book
Introduction: Ethnographies of Historicity - Eric Hirsch, Charles Stewart, 2005Article
‘Bringing lights to the yurts’: Visions of future and belonging surrounding pastures andhydropower in Kyrgyzstan - Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, 2014
Article
Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life - RichardBauman and Charles L. Briggs, 1990
Article
Global goes local: popular culture in Asia - Timothy J. Craig, Richard King, c2002Book
The singer of tales - Albert B. Lord, 1960Book
The oral art and literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia - Thomas Gustav Winner,
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1958Book
Tradition and society in Turkmenistan: gender, oral culture and song - Carole Blackwell,2001
Book
Further Reading (5 items)
The memorial feast for Kökötöy-khan (Kökötöydün ašı): a Kirghiz epic poem - A. T. Hatto,1977
Book | (Extract from Kyrgyz Epic, esp Chapter 1)
The manas of Wilhelm Radloff - V. V. Radlov, A. T. Hatto, 1990Book | Read: (Extract from Kyrgyz epic). How Almambet came to Manas. Otto
Harrassowitz
A Muslim Shaman of Afghan Turkestan - Micheline Centlivres, Pierre Centlivres and MarkSlobin, 1971
Article
Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word - Walter J. Ong, 1982Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Oral poetry: its nature, significance and social context - Ruth H. Finnegan, 1977Book
Discussion: (1 items)
5 minute presentation on one Central Asian musical form such as the muqam, showinghow it has influenced/been influenced by contemporary popular culture and recent socialdevelopments. Many of the above readings are relevant, esp Levin, Harris, Winner,Blackwell. See me for musical sources.
Film 7 3-5pm (1 items)
The Light Thief. A tale of wind generation and corruption (Kyrgyzstan) Aktan Arym Kubat(dir)
Lecture 9 - Toy – feasts. Weddings, circumcision (13 items)
Readings (11 items)
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Animal knowledge - S.J. BunnChapter | See Lecture 3.
Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory - Bruce G. Privratsky, 2001Book | Chapter 3.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - Special Issue: The return to hospitality:strangers, guests, and ambiguous encounters - 2012
Journal | Especially articles by Humphrey, da Col, Delaplace
Ritualism of Family Life in Soviet Central Asia: Sunnat (Circumcision) - E.A. ChylinskiChapter
The System of Nourishment among the Eurasian Nomads: the Kazakh example - Nurila Z.Shakanova, 1989
Chapter
Kidnapping for marriage (ala kachuu) in a Kyrgyz village - Russell Kleinbach, MehrigiulAblezova, Medina Aitieva, 2005
Article
Tradition and society in Turkmenistan: gender, oral culture and song - Carole Blackwell,2001
Book
Hierarchy in Traditional men’s associations of Central Asia - R. RahimovChapter
Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present - Jeff Sahadeo, Russell G. Zanca, 2007Book | esp. Chapters 3, 7, 12.
Bartered brides: politics, gender and marriage in an Afghan tribal society - Nancy Tapper,1991
Book
http://theborrowedkazan.wordpress.com/ about a food project in Central Asia
Discussion topic: (1 items)
JRAI Special Issue on Hospitality (see above). Discussed the key issues raised by thisjournal in relation to past anthropological interest in hospitality and the relevance for foodand feasting for this region
Film 8 3-5pm (1 items)
Besh Kempir (Kyrgyz) A young lad, a foundling, has no mother, but is adopted by 5
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grandmothers (besh kempir), who look after him. 12 years later, Beshkempir, is enteringpuberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. A death in the family pushesBeshkempir even faster toward adult roles where he must lead the funeral procession.
Lecture 10 - Zhut, drought and death. Cosmo-economies, water,irrigation, nuclear testing (15 items)
Zhut is the melting of snow followed by frost, which brings famine and death to animalsand people on a large scale in Eurasia. We discuss responses to death in human,environmental and stately terms. We also examine the relationship between 'natural' and'man-made' disasters, including the significance of water, nuclear testing, war, and thespace programme. Kazakhstan, Karakalpakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia
Key Readings (8 items)
Reinventing the Dzud: Livestock Famine in 21st century Mongolia - O. Farkas, B. KempfChapter
Rituals of Death as a Context for Understanding Personal Property in Socialist Mongolia -Caroline Humphrey, 2002
Article
Rulers and rascals: the politics of gold in Mongolian Qing history - Mette M. High, J.Schlesinger, 2010
Article
Fear and fortune: spirit worlds and emerging economies in the Mongolian gold rush - MetteM. High, 2017
Book | Available in Library and as an e-book.
Iconic places in Central Asia: the moral geography of dams, pastures and holy sites -Jeanne Feaux de la Croix, 2016
Book | Chapter 3
Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory - Bruce G. Privratsky, 2001Book | Chapter 4.
A looming water Crisis in Chinese Central Asia - G. MattohtiChapter
Küt and dzhut: food and famine in Central Asia - S. BunnChapter
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Further Reading (5 items)
Tajikistan: disintegration or reconciliation? - Shirin Akiner, 2001Book
Central Asia: conflict or stability and development? - Shirin Akiner, 1997Book
Gorshkov, N. & Marchenko, Ye. 1987 The Issyk-kul Forum. 'Kyrgyzstan' Press.
Küdin, Y 1997 Kazakhstan Nuclear Testing. Extract. United Nations publs
Islam and the Gendered Discourses of Death - Lila Abu-Lughod, 1993Article
Discussion topic: (1 items)
How might Eurasian pastoralists' ideas about death link to their relationship with theenvironment? Could this impact on response to regional disasters?
Guest Lecture 9 3-5pm Dr Mette High (1 items)
Notes from the field working with Mongolian gold-miners
Lecture 11 - Chaos or creativity: Fashion houses, Internet mourningfestivals, chaos or creativity? Building a new future in Eurasia (7 items)
Key Readings (6 items)
'Eurasia’, ideology and the political imagination in provincial Russia - C. Humphrey, 2002Chapter | Available in the library and as an e-book.
'Invitation to a Mourning Ceremony': Perspectives on the Uyghur Internet - Rachel Harris,Aziz Isa, 2011
Article
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Moving people and the fabric of society: the power of felt through time and place -Stephanie Bunn, 2011
Article
Claiming an ancestral homeland: Kazakh pilgrimage and migration in Inner Asia -Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Anna Genina, 2011
Article
Post-Soviet chaos: violence and dispossession in Kazakhstan - Joma Nazpary, 2002Book | Chapter 3.
Theft and Social Trust in Post-Communist Mongolia - C. HumphreyChapter | Chapter 7.
Revision discussion
Film 10 3-5. (1 items)
Barzakh by Mantas Kvedaravicius (Chechen). Contemporary art film which tells of deathand fear in Chechnya
Filmography (11 items)
Film 1 Dersu Uzala. Kurosawa/Russia (1 items)Fiction film based on the memoirs of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev on the Siberianfrontier, where the explorer meets Goldi hunter Dersu Uzala who guides them. Oscarwinning classic!
Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa, 1975Audio-visual document
Film 2 White Mountains, by Melis Ubuke’ev (Kyrgyz) (1 items)Film by one of Kyrgyzstan’s great Soviet era directors which gives a socialist perspectiveon the aftermath of the 1916 uprising.
Belye gory - MelisUbukeev, 1964
Audio-visual document
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Film 3 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep by Ben Hopkins 2006. (Anglo-Turkish). (1 items)The Pamir Kyrgyz migrated from the Pamir Mountains in Central Afghanistan to exile in avillage in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrived to make a film withthem. The film is divided into “chapters” which include revealing interviews andreconstructions.
37 uses for a dead sheep - Ben Hopkins, 2006Audio-visual document
Film 4 The Angel on the Right by Djamshed Usmunov (Tajik). (1 items)The 'hero' returns from working (and prison) in Moscow to his Tajik village where he musttake on his family responsibilities.
The Angel on the Right by Djamshed Usmunov (Tajik).
Film 5 The Story of the Weeping Camel Byambasuran Davaa & LuigiFalorni. (Mongolia/Italy) (1 items)Suggested additional viewing Return to the womb of the sky by Kayirbekov Kazakhstan
Story of the weeping camel - Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni, 2003Audio-visual document
Film 6. Akhmad Yassayu by Zhakhongir Kasymov (Kazakh), Yashmak by Malik Kayumov(Uzbek)
Film 7. The Light Thief by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyz) 2010. The hero of the film, Svet-Ake(the "light thief") steals electricity to provide for his hard-up village. He becomes a pawn inlocal politics as businessman Bekzat tries to get his help to get elected as the local deputy,the subtext being a land-grab.
Film 8 Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy (Kazakh). On the Kazakh steppes, Asa lives in a Kazakh üy with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, a herder, and their three children. It'slambing time and there is a problem with stillborn lambs. Asa, a dreamer who recentlyfinished in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a herder's life on the steppes. He, his friendBoni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area with the hope of gaining herhand in marriage. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight.
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Films 9 Aralkum (Uzbek); Nevada, Kazakhstan (Kazakh)
Film 10: Beshkempir, Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyz) 1998 (1 items)In a Kyrgyz village, five grandmothers (besh kempir) adopt an infant foundling. 12 yearslater, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. Adeath in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles. He must lead afuneral procession, and reconcile with his friend.
Beshkempir - Aktan Abdykalykov, 1998Audio-visual document
Film 11 Barzakh by Mantas Kvedaravicius (Chechen). A contemporary art film which tells ofdeath and fear in Chechnya
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