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- Title
To Be an Uzbek or Not to Be a Tajik? Ethnicity and Locality in the Bukhara Oasis.
- Authors
Finke, Peter; Sancak, Meltem
- Abstract
This paper presents a remarkable case of ethnic ambiguity amongst Uzbek- and Tajik-speakers in the oasis of Bukhara. Together, they constitute one bilingual and largely endogamous cultural entity in which internal differences are vigorously denied. Both share the same institutional framework, within which interaction is coordinated, as well as fundamental cognitive schemas concerning ethnic belonging. According to these schemas similarity is the product of common residence and socialization rather than descent and language. Thus, one may simultaneously be an Uzbek and a Tajik, as the main source of identity is locality and a shared way of doing things.
- Subjects
BUKHORO (Uzbekistan); UZBEKISTAN; ETHNICITY; SOCIAL context; IDENTIFICATION; BILINGUALISM; SOCIALIZATION; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2012, Vol 137, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0044-2666
- Publication type
Article