Blood Ties And The Native Son: Poetics Of Patronage In Kyrgyzstan (New Anthropologies Of Europe) - 9780253025289

Cover -- BLOOD TIES AND THE NATIVE SON -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 Mechanisms 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, Democratization, and Poetics of Patronage -- Glossary of Local Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Aksana Ismailbekova
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0253025281
• | ISBN-13: 9780253025289