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Table of contents: Part I Local Identities of Space and Place 1 The Blessed Home: Residence and Identity in a Uyghur Neighborhood 11 2 Yining's Mehelle as Suburban Periphery 32 3 Desettling the Land: The Destruction of Uyghur Chthonic Identity 48 Part II Gender and the Life Cycle 4 Gleaming Eyes, Evil Eyes: Cradle and Cure in Uyghur Child Rearing 67 5 At Play in the Mehelle: The Language and Lore of Uyghur Childhood 92 6 Marriage, Mistresses, and Masculinity: Gender and Adult Social Life 114 7 The Pretty Olturash: Masculinity and…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2009Harvard University Asia Center · 349 pages · 9780674032828
Social life and customsUighur (Turkic people)MenFamilyTurkic peoplesFamily, chinaChina, social life and customsFamilies