Overview
Brings together historical and ethnographic research from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang
Explores how individuals and communities work to create and maintain forms of ‘culture’ in contexts of ideological repression and erasure
Explains how scholarly attention to cultural production, tradition, and performance helps to inform our understanding of (ethnic) nations not as given, but as coming into being
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together historical and ethnographic research from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang, in order to explore how individuals and communities work to create and maintain forms of ‘culture’ in contexts of ideological repression and erasure. Across Inner Central Asia, in both China and the Soviet Union, while ethnic culture was on one hand lauded and promoted, it was simultaneously folklorized in the face of broader projects of socialist modernity. How do local intellectuals, cultural organizers, and performers work to negotiate their own forms and understandings of cultural meaning within the institutions and frameworks of a long twentieth century? How does scholarly attention to cultural production, tradition, and performance help to inform our understanding of (ethnic) nations not as given, but as coming into being?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ali İğmen is Professor of History and Director of the Oral History Program in California State University, Long Beach, USA.
Ananda Breed is Professor in Theatre in the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Eva-Marie Dubuisson is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia
Editors: Ananda Breed, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Ali Iğmen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58685-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58684-3Published: 25 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58685-0Published: 24 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 157
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Cultural Studies