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Down a narrow road : identity and masculinity in a Uyghur community in Xinjiang China /
"This ethnography presents a thick description of life in the Uyghur suburbs of Yining, a city near the border with Kazakhstan, and situates that account in a broader examination of Uyghur culture. Its four sections explore topics ranging from family life to market trading, from informal social...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2009.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
312. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Stevan Harrell
- pt. I. Local Identities of Space and Place
- 1. The Blessed Home: Residence and Identity in a Uyghur Neighborhood
- 2. Yining's Mehelle as Suburban Periphery
- 3. Desettling the Land: The Destruction of Uyghur Chthonic Identity
- pt. II. Gender and the Life Cycle
- 4. Gleaming Eyes, Evil Eyes: Cradle and Cure in Uyghur Child Rearing
- 5. At Play in the Mehelle: The Language and Lore of Uyghur Childhood
- 6. Marriage, Mistresses, and Masculinity: Gender and Adult Social Life
- 7. The Pretty Olturash: Masculinity and Moral Order in Adult Play
- 8. "Women have hair, men have nicknames": Uyghur Nicknaming Practices
- pt. III. Markets and Merchants on the Silk Road
- 9. Merchants and Markets in the Mehelle
- 10. Yining's Border Trade: Trader-Tourism and Uyghur Sojourning
- pt. IV. Islam in the Mehelle: The Social Dimensions of Uyghur Religious Practice
- 11. The False Hajim and the Bad Meshrep: Piety and Politics in Uyghur Islam.