Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Writing the national biography. 1. The longue durée of national storytelling: Soviet roots and the quest for ethnogenesis ; 2. Centrality and autochthonism: Uzbekistan's nationhood ; 3. Aryan mythology and ethnicism: Tajikistan's nationhood ; 4. National unity versus pluralism: Kyrgyzstan's nationhood ; 5. Reborn nation, born-again religion? The case of TengrismPart
  • 2. Politics and the Nazarbayev order. 6. Hybridity in nation-building: the case of Kazakhstan ; 7. Ideology of the 'crossroads': Eurasianism from Suleimenov to Nazarbayev ; 8. Media and the nation: searching for Kazakhness in televisual production ; 9. Language and ethnicity: the landscape of Kazakh nationalism ; 10. Generational changes: the Nazarbayev Generation ; Conclusion: The missing pieces of Central Asia's nationhood puzzle.