Down a narrow road
Subtitle: identity and masculinity in a Uyghur community in Xinjiang China
By: Jay Dautcher.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 312
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780674032828
Subjects: Uighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social life and customs; Family -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Men -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Description: Table of contents:

<strong>Part I Local Identities of Space and Place</strong>

1	The Blessed Home: Residence and Identity in a Uyghur Neighborhood	11 <br>
2	Yining's Mehelle as Suburban Periphery	32<br>
3	Desettling the Land: The Destruction of Uyghur Chthonic Identity	48<br>

<strong>Part II Gender and the Life Cycle</strong><br>

4	Gleaming Eyes, Evil Eyes: Cradle and Cure in Uyghur Child Rearing	67<br>
5	At Play in the Mehelle: The Language and Lore of Uyghur Childhood	92<br>
6	Marriage, Mistresses, and Masculinity: Gender and Adult Social Life	114<br>
7	The Pretty Olturash: Masculinity and Moral Order in Adult Play	143<br>
8	"Women have hair, men have nicknames": Uyghur Nicknaming Practices	168<br>

<strong>Part III Markets and Merchants on the Silk Road</strong><br>

9	Merchants and Markets in the Mehelle	 203<br>
10	Yining's Border Trade: Trader-Tourism and Uyghur Sojourning	228<br>

<strong>Part IV Islam in the Mehelle: The Social Dimensions of Uyghur Religious Practice</strong>

11	The False Hajim and the Bad Meshrep: Piety and Politics in Uyghur Islam	255<br>
12	The Hungry Guest: Rhetoric, Reverence, and Reversal in a Uyghur Ramadan	283<br>
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.