… and original contribution to scholarly work on Central Asia and more generally on the
anthropology of border regions and the state as a social process. Moreover, the work as a whole is …

… bear witness of important spatial transformations in Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley in the …
state territories clearly represent the context for the author’s ethnographic gaze at borders. …

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антропологии Средней Азии растет в последнее время большими темпами, появляются …

… This book absolutely must be read, not only by central Asian specialists but also by
researchers working on the metamorphosis of contemporary states elsewhere in the world. …

… rural areas and its detailed examination of the making of states in Central Asia—and to the
study of borders in … processual and multiple constitutions of borders using a diverse number of …

… This study will be of great interest for students of state-making, borders, spatiality, power
and mobility in Central Asia and beyond. Moreover, the beauty of the book is in its ability to …

The book consists of 14 chapters, the first of which offers a brief introduction to the subject.
Considering the chapters from the perspective of geographical location, the second chapter (…

… toward a sovereign state and instead interprets them as “border work, in which the territorial
… processes of state governance and legal authority far beyond the valleys of Central Asia. …

… rare work that … of life being played out in places where the certainty of a state regime is not
self-evident. Though the importance of this work is readily apparent to scholars of Central Asia …

… interested in post-Soviet Central Asian states and peoples, as well as ethnographers, human
geographers, and scholars of borders and frontiers to read her work; some chapters would …