Ildikó Bellér-Hann

Uyghurs Between Civilizations

The Great Dispossession

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources presenting both emic and etic views, this book offers an insight into aspects of social life among the Uyghur in pre-socialist Xinjiang and substantiates the concept of tradition which modern Uyghurs draw upon to construct their ethnic identity.

Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur

Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949

Die Reihe Istanbuler Texte und Studien (ITS) ist eine Buchreihe des Orient-Instituts Istanbul. Das Institut ist ein turkologisches und regional-wissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut im Verbund der Max Weber Stiftung. In enger Kooperation mit turkischen und internationalen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern widmet es sich einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Forschungsgebiete. Ausserdem ist das Orient-Institut Istanbul aktiv auf dem Gebiet des wissenschaftlichen Austausches zwischen Deutschland und der Turkei. Der 8. Band dieser Reihe beinhaltet: "The Past as Resource in the Turkic Speaking World".

The Past as Resource in the Turkic Speaking World

Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949

The ten chapters of this book, all of them published previously in specialist works, derive from the author's ethnographic research among the Uyghur of Xinjiang and Kazakhstan in the mid-1990s. Approaching beliefs and practices as politically embedded, the articles have historical value in documenting the possibilities and constraints of fieldwork in this region in the 1990s. They also offer a point of departure for new studies of the Uyghur and their relations with their neighbors in the increasingly difficult conditions which characterize the early twenty-first century. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, Vol. 31) [Subject: Sociology, Anthropology]

Work, Religion, Gender, and the Mobilisation of Tradition among the Uyghur in the 1990s

Negotiating Identities

C. M. Hann

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a region of Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast abutting the border with the Republic of Georgia. Recent developments are analyzed in the context of changes in Turkish civil society.

State, Market & Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast

Turkish Region

Rune Steenberg

Aysima Mirsultan

Minorities, Elites, and Narative Constructions Across the Centuries

Voiced and Voiceless in Xinjiang

Drawing together distinguished international scholars, this volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs. The work is comparative and interdisciplinary in focus and bridges a gap in our understanding of this group.

Ildikó Bellér-Hann

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