Down a Narrow Road

Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China

Jay Dautcher

    • Foreword
      Stevan Harrell
    • Characters
    • A Note on Language
    • Maps
    • Introduction

      • Part I: Local Identities of Space and Place

    1. The Blessed Home: Residence and Identity in a Uyghur Neighborhood
    2. Yining's Mehelle as Suburban Periphery
    3. Desettling the Land: The Destruction of Uyghur Chthonic Identity

      Part II: Gender and the Life Cycle

    1. Gleaming Eyes, Evil Eyes: Cradle and Cure in Uyghur Child Rearing
    2. At Play in the Mehelle: The Language and Lore of Uyghur Childhood
    3. Marriage, Mistresses, and Masculinity: Gender and Adult Social Life
    4. The Pretty Olturash: Masculinity and Moral Order in Adult Play
    5. “Women have hair, men have nicknames”: Uyghur Nicknaming Practices

      Part III: Markets and Merchants on the Silk Road

    1. Merchants and Markets in teh Mehelle
    2. Yining's Border Trade: Trader-Tourism and Uyghur Sojourning

      Part IV: Islam in the Mehelle: The Social Dimensions of Uyghur Religious Practice

    1. The False Hajim and the Bad Meshrep: Piety and Politics in Uyghur Islam
    2. The Hungry Guest: Rhetoric, Reverence, and Reversal in a Uyghur Ramadan
    • Epilogue
    • Glossary
    • Notes
    • Works Cited
    • Index
  • Cover: Down a Narrow Road

Jay Dautcher is an independent scholar living in Santa Cruz, CA.