Description
Book SynopsisThe narrative is framed around the terms identity, community, and masculinity. As the author shows, the Uyghurs of Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of China, express a set of individual and collective identities organized around place, gender, family relations, friendships, occupation, and religious practice.
Trade ReviewThe book...refreshingly opts to describe more than it analyzes. While other excellent treatments of Uighur culture...have focused on history and ethnonationalism, Mr. Dautcher seeks to evoke Uighur culture as precisely as possible in the time and place he experienced it. A humanizing picture of the ethnic minority and the day-to-day conflicts between Uighurs and Han emerges as the reader is confronted with numerous first-hand sources and anecdotes...The value of Mr. Dautcher's ethnography extends beyond its illustrations of Han-Uighur tensions in the region...
Down a Narrow Road helps to establish a foundation for understanding that might yet blossom into international awareness and activism similar to that enjoyed by the Tibetan movement in past years. -- Paul Mozur * Far Eastern Economic Times *
