Худое ва худри бишиносам (I Know God and Myself)
These particularly detailed memoirs cover Khodizoda’s childhood, education, and career. Khodizoda also provides detail on his experiences writing a novel…
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Кыргызы в трудах Чокана Валиханова (The Kyrghyz in the Writings of Chokan Valikhanov)
Turdaliyeva’s book illuminates Valikhanov’s little-known essays on Kyrgyz history and culture.
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Золотая Жила: Очерки о фольклоре и духовной культуре Казахстана (Gold Mine: Essays on Folklore and Spiritual Culture of Kazakhstan)
The book provides a comparative analysis of folklore, mythology, and literature in Kazakhstan.
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State-Building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions
This study challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions—networks, clientelism, and connections— disappear in modern societies due to the processes…
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Migration and Identity in Central Asia: The Uzbek Experience
Turaeva’s book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in Tashkent. The ethnographic details of the book represent…
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Living Shrines of Uyghur China: Photographs by Lisa Ross
Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the…
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Тәуелсіздік Кезеңіндегі Қазақ Опера Театры (Kazakh Opera During the Independence Era)
This work studies the evolution of Kazakh theatrical traditions since the crisis era of the 1990s and the emergence of…
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Family and Transnational Mobility in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Labor Migration from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to Russia
Focusing on migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, this study shows that the transfers of resources between receiving and sending…
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Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity
In Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand Uyghur culture, language, literature, history, art, and religious identity,…
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Святые места Юга Кыргызстана: Природа, Манас, Ислам (Holy Places of Southern Kyrgyzstan: Nature, Manas, Islam)
This book is the result of three years of research on Holy sites, which was carried out by the Aigine…
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