This monograph is the first study dealing with life-cycle events, such as birth, children’s upbringing, marriage and funeral rites of...

Legal Pluralism in Central Asia examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and contextualizes them within wider societal trends in the...

Тлостанова показывает, как искусство стало средством деколонизации и создания современной постсоветской идентичности.

This study challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions—networks, clientelism, and connections— disappear in modern societies due to the processes...

Turaeva's book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in Tashkent. The ethnographic details of the book represent...

Переписывание нации в современной казахской литературе – это книга о культурных преобразованиях и траекториях национального воображения в современном Казахстане.

A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story...

Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in...

In Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand Uyghur culture, language, literature, history, art, and religious identity,...

Turdaliyeva's book illuminates Valikhanov's little-known essays on Kyrgyz history and culture.

This book is the result of three years of research on Holy sites, which was carried out by the Aigine...

Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the...

Focusing on migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, this study shows that the transfers of resources between receiving and sending...

A study of twentieth-century Uzbek literature in the US. In the book the author provides a useful survey of the...

This work studies the evolution of Kazakh theatrical traditions since the crisis era of the 1990s and the emergence of...

Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of fieldwork, From Shamanism to Sufism shows how women kept traditional Islamic...

This book maps developmental trends of Kazakh national choreography in the post-independence period. The book includes reviews of ballet festivals,...

The book provides a comparative analysis of folklore, mythology, and literature in Kazakhstan.

Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of...

These particularly detailed memoirs cover Khodizoda's childhood, education, and career. Khodizoda also provides detail on his experiences writing a novel...