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An anthropologist explores the politics and society of Kyrgyzstan through a study of one influential man’s life. A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and
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Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain cri
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central