Pastoréalismes
Anthropologie historique des processus d’intégration chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan intérieur
By (author) Svetlana Jacquesson
Hardback (Published)
(January 2011)
ISBN: 9783895007699
6.69 x 9.45 inches
Price: $102.00
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The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the basis of long-term fieldwork and through the investigation of the existing historical and ethnographic sources. By developing a historical anthropological approach, the book offers a new perspective on pastoralism in a region that has remained largely unexplored up to now. It is of interest for specialists of Central Asia as a cultural area, for anthropologists and historians as well as for all those who are willing to initiate themselves in the past and present of Kyrgyzstan.
English summary: The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the basis of long-term fieldwork and through the investigation of the existing historical and ethnographic sources. By developing a historical anthropological approach, the book offers a new perspective on pastoralism in a region that has remained largely unexplored up to now. It is of interest for specialists of Central Asia as a cultural area, for anthropologists and historians as well as for all those who are willing to initiate themselves in the past and present of Kyrgyzstan. French description: C’est un ouvrage sur les relations entre un phenomene economique – le pastoralisme et un phenomene social – les groupes de descendance patrilineaire – chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan interieur. Ces relations sont analysees a partir des enquetes extensives de terrain et en explorant les sources historiques et ethnographiques existantes. En developpant une approche d’anthropologie historique, l’ouvrage offre une nouvelle perspective sur le pastoralisme dans une region peu etudiee jusque maintenant. Il represente de l’interet a la fois pour les specialistes de l’Asie centrale comme aire culturelle, pour les anthropologues et les historiens ainsi que pour tous ceux qui souhaitent s’initier au passe et au present du Kirghizstan.
- By (author) Svetlana Jacquesson
“This monograph examines pastoralist and descent systems in Kyrgyzstan from their integration in the Tsarist colonial system to the present day. Based on extensive archival work as well as over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northern Kyrgyzstan, Jacquesson gives a chronological and detailed account of the impact of Tsarist rule, the formation of the Kyrgyz Republic, collectivisation, sedentarisation, the Soviet livestock economy and the dismantling of this system. The argument about the nature, survival and interrelations of pastoralist and genealogical practices is firmly based in debates of both European and Soviet ethnography. The author’s use of the literature is exemplary in bringing together these debates and its comparative dimension.<br/>(...) One of the greatest values of this study is the richness of data Jacquesson offers to support her argument: meticulous ethnographic and archival research come together here in a convincing way. As is common with case studies, there sometimes remains the problem of assessing how generalisable the experience of the particular communes whose history she traces is: as she demonstrates, the two often have quite different historical experiences. The reader is given plenty of evidence to compare with the experience of other areas, such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. While the argument focuses very neatly on examining descent and pastoralist practices, there are also very intriguing discussions on the nature of historical memory and narrative, forms of political leadership, governance and the effect of state policies over several generations. Since the book is in French, its valuable synthesis of and engagement with Russian, French and English scholarship will not be as widely accessible as it deserves. Hopefully a timely translation will allow Central Asian and other interested scholars to join the debate on how kinship, pastoralism and politics have evolved over a century of major changes.”<br/><br/><br/>Jeanne Feaux de la Croix<br/><br/>In: Social Anthropology. 20 (2012) 1. S. 104-106.
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