1st Edition
Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia New Games Great and Small
Introduction - Robert L. Canfield Part I, Repressions and their Consequences 1. Authoritarianism and Its Consequences in ex-Soviet Central Asia - Anatoly Khazanov 2. Localism and Identity among the Uyghur of Xinjiang - Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part II, Ethnic Perceptions and Reactions 3. Central Asian Attitudes towards Afghanistan; Perceptions of the Afghan War in Uzbekistan - Peter Finke 4. Alignment Politics and Factionalism among the Uzbeks of North-Eastern Afghanistan - Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek 5. Rebuilding Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield 6. Pukhtun Identity in Swat, Northern Pakistan - Charles Lindholm Part III, Devices of Mutual Support 7. Towards a Transnational Community: Migration and Remittances among the Hazaras - Alessandro Monsutti 8. An Interregional History of Pashtun Migration, c. 1775-2000 - Robert Nichols Part IV, Mechanisms of Authority and Influence 9. Political Games in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Factions, Protection and New Resistances - Boris Petrić 10. Female Mullahs, Healers and Leaders of Central Asian Islam: Gendering the Old and New Religious Roles in Post-Communist Societies - Habiba Fathi 11. Efficacy and Hierarchy: Practices in Afghanistan as an Example - Robert L. Canfield
Biography
Robert L. Canfield is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. His many publications include (as co-editor) Revolutions and Rebellions in Afganistan, and (as editor) Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective.
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek is Associate Professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
