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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Collection: | New anthropologies of Europe.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Table des matières:
- Foreword : on native sons, fake brothers, and big men / Peter Finke
- 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 Day
- 7. Rahim's victory feast : political patronage and kinship in solidarity
- Concluding words : native son, democratization, and poetics of patronage.