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This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratisation and clientelism.

* Europe-Asia Studies *

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Native Sons, Fake Brothers, and Big Men / Peter Finke
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
List of Acronyms
Introduction: The Native Son and Blood Ties
1. Kinship and Patronage in Kyrgyz History
2. Scales of Rahim's Kinship: Zooming In and Zooming Out
3. "Renewing the Bone": Kinship Categories, Practices and Patronage Networks in Bulak Village
4. The Irony of the Circle of Trust: The Dynamics and Mechanism of Patronage on the Private Farm
5. Patronage and Poetics of Democracy
6. The Return of the Native Son: The Symbolic Construction of the Election Day
7. Rahim's Victory Feast: Political Patronage and Kinship in Solidarity
Concluding words: Native son, Democratisation, and Poetics of Patronage
Glossary of Local Terms
Bibliography
Index

Blood Ties and the Native Son

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 22 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9780253025289
      978-0253025289
      ISBN-10 0253025281
      Also in:
      Asian history Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratisation and clientelism.

      * Europe-Asia Studies *

      Table of Contents

      Foreword: On Native Sons, Fake Brothers, and Big Men / Peter Finke
      Acknowledgments
      Note on Transliteration
      List of Acronyms
      Introduction: The Native Son and Blood Ties
      1. Kinship and Patronage in Kyrgyz History
      2. Scales of Rahim's Kinship: Zooming In and Zooming Out
      3. "Renewing the Bone": Kinship Categories, Practices and Patronage Networks in Bulak Village
      4. The Irony of the Circle of Trust: The Dynamics and Mechanism of Patronage on the Private Farm
      5. Patronage and Poetics of Democracy
      6. The Return of the Native Son: The Symbolic Construction of the Election Day
      7. Rahim's Victory Feast: Political Patronage and Kinship in Solidarity
      Concluding words: Native son, Democratisation, and Poetics of Patronage
      Glossary of Local Terms
      Bibliography
      Index

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