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Blood ties and the native son : poetics of patronage in Kyrgyzstan /
A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and soc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; BLOOD TIES AND THE NATIVE SON; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: On Native Sons, Fake Brothers, and Big Men / Peter Finke; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Native Son and Blood Ties; 1 Kinship and Patronage in Kyrgyz History; 2 Scales of Rahim's Kinship: Zooming In and Zooming Out; 3 "Renewing the Bone": Kinship Categories, Practices, and Patronage Networks in Bulak Village; 4 The Irony of the Circle of Trust: The Dynamics and Mechanisms of Patronage on the Private Farm; 5 Patronage and Poetics of Democracy.
- 6 The Return of the Native Son: The Symbolic Construction of the Election Day7 Rahim's Victory Feast: Political Patronage and Kinship in Solidarity; Concluding Words: Native Son, Democratization, and Poetics of Patronage; Glossary of Local Terms; Bibliography; Index.