Co-teachers:  Robert L. Canfield and Sarah Kendzior
Location:  McMillan B7 [basement, far southwest corner]
Schedule:  MWF, 9 a.m.

Textbooks:
Adeeb Khalid.2007. Islam after Communism:  Religion and Politics in Central Asia.. University of California Press.
Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca.2007.  Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present.  Indiana University.

Useful sites for reference
http://libguides.wustl.edu/centralasia [Library's guide site for this course]
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~canfrobt/ChronologyOfMajorEvents.pdf [Chronology of Major Events in Turko-Persian ecumene]
http://onlinehistories.ssrc.org/centralasia/ [SSRC site on Central Asian history and culture]
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~canfrobt/webcahistory.html [Historical maps of Greater Central Asia]
http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/acs/modules/slobin/html/intro/index.html [Marc Slobin's images of Afghanistan]

AN405 / 4043 SCHEDULE [12/21/09]

* = From Everyday Life in Central Asia

UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTORY
Soviet and pre-Soviet Central Asian history
1/20/09 Beatrice Manz. 1994. “Historical Background.” In Central Asia In Historical Perspective.
[Lecture:  Mackinder and geopolitics; early history; Arab invasions and Mongol invasions]

1/22/09 Parag Khanna, [Selection] The Second World. [Optional: #Scot Levi.  Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History.  In Everyday Life in Central Asia, pp. 15-31.] 
[Lecture:  early history:  Western Turks [Turkmen, Ottoman, Seljuqs]; Eastern Turks [Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Khirghiz, Uyghur, etc.].  Major language families represented in the area:  Turkish; Iranian subset of Indo-European [Farsi, Dari, Tajik, Pamiri languages].  Rise of Turko-Persian culture [Turkic military; Persian culture; Arabic courts].

1/25/09 #Hauner [What is Asia to Us?] ; Ch 5: Russia's Drive to the South pp. 69-131.
[Lecture:  Survey of early history of Turko-Persia from 1500 BC to Mongol invasions.  Impact of Turkish invasions on settled populations, which were mostly Iranian.  Rise of the Islamic empire [Abbasid and its successors].  Breakup of the Abbasid empire and rise of Persian in the eastern lands.  Mongol impact on the eastern lands of Islam.]

1/27/09 #Crews [For Prophet and Tsar]:  Introduction, pp 1-30
[Lecture:  Sarah Kendzior: ppt. presentation on the political movements in Central Asia from the Mongols to Babur.  RLC:  Summary of the two characteristic adaptations in the region: pastoral, in which the populations live on sheep/goats, and trade with settled populations for grain, make the horse an icon of power, focus of ritual, as it is the key vehicle of political power; settled agricultural populations, dependent on use of land, mostly subsisting by the use of surface water, which entails development of irrigation systems and social agreements for building canals and using the water by turns.  Also, described the concept of "tributary systems" [Eric Wolf's term]:  which involve a heirarchy of tribute payments and dependencies enforced from "the top" but are inherently fragile:  it can be a highly effective system of central dominance [as in imperial China] or a fragile system in which vassals break away and set up their own local independence heirarchies of power [feudal Europe].

UNIT TWO: KHALID ON ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA
Islam in Central Asia
1/29/09 Khalid:  Introduction.  Pp. 1-18

2/1/09 reading: Khalid I:  Islam in Central Asia, pp 19-33

2/3/09  reading:  Khalid: II:  Empire and the Challenge of Modernity, pp 34-49

2/5/09  Abdulhamid Cholpon. 1914. “Doctor Muhammad Yar” in Kurzman, Modernist Islam.  Abdurrauf Fitrat. 1911. “Debate Between a Teacher from Bukhara and a European”, in Kurzman, Modernist Islam.

2/8/09 

2/10/09  Joseph Stalin. 1912. “Marxism and the National Question” http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm#s1

2/12/09  Khalid III:  The Soviet Assault on Islam pp. 50-83.
[Sarah: discussion of the Oral History project in Kyrgizstan.  Comparison of personal recollections of Kyrgiz with Khalid's description of affairs in the Soviet Union in the same period.]

2/15/09  Khalid IV:  Islam as National Heritage 84- 115.
[Lecture based on recent news from Iran and Afghanistan.  The crisis in Iran and it possibilities.  The struggle in Afghanistan with the Taliban.]

2/17/09  Khalid V:  The Revival of Islam 116-139

2/19/09  Katherine Verdery (1995), “What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?” In Beyond Soviet Studies, edited by Daniel Orlovsky. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Pp. 27-47. (CP)

2/22/09  Khalid VI:  Islam as Opposition pp. 140-167.

2/24/09  discuss Khalid Chapter 5 

2/26/09  Baris Isci Lecture on Kirgyzstan Yuri Slezkine. 1994. “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism”, Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, 414-452

3/1/09  Khalid Chapter 6 Langston Hughes. 1934. “A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia”. Reprinted by David Mikosz.

3/3/09 Khalid Chapter 7 and :Conclusion" 

3/5/09 PAPERS DUE  In-class video: Michael Andersen, “The Myth of Religious Extremism in Central Asia” (2010)

3/8-12. 09 BREAK

3/15: Charles Kurzman. 1999. "Uzbekistan: The Invention of Nationalism in an Invented Nation," Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 15: 77-98.

3/17: Eric McGinchley. “Divided Faith” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

3/19: [Baris Isci talked about the second half of her argument.]  David M. Abramson and Elyor E. Karimov. “Sacred Sites and Profane Practices” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

3/22:  Sarah Kendzior. 2006. “Inventing Akromiya: The Role of Uzbek Propagandists in the Andijon Massacre” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 14 (4): 545-562

3/24: Nick Megoran. 2008.  “Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimov's account of the events of 13 May 2005”, Central Asian Survey 27 (1) pp. 15 – 31. 

3/26: Sarah Kendzior. 2007. "Poetry of Witness: Uzbek Identity and the Response to Andijon", Central Asian Survey 26 (3): 317–334. 

PAPER ASSIGNMENT: *AN4043:  Writing assignment on Uzbekistan*

We have examined six articles about Uzbekistan:
• 3/15: Charles Kurzman. 1999. "Uzbekistan: The Invention of Nationalism in an Invented Nation," Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 15: 77-98.
• 3/17: Eric McGinchley. “Divided Faith” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia).
• 3/19: David M. Abramson and Elyor E. Karimov. “Sacred Sites and Profane Practices” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia) 
• 3/22:  Sarah Kendzior. 2006. “Inventing Akromiya: The Role of Uzbek Propagandists in the Andijon Massacre” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 14 (4): 545-562 
• 3/24: Nick Megoran. 2008.  “Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimov's account of the events of 13 May 2005”, Central Asian Survey 27 (1) pp. 15 – 31. 
• 3/26: Sarah Kendzior. 2007. "Poetry of Witness: Uzbek Identity and the Response to Andijon", Central Asian Survey 26 (3): 317–334. 

In a short paper [5-6 pp] explain what you know or can surmise about legitimacy and authority in Uzbekistan on the basis of these articles.  Answer such questions as the following: 
• "How do different parties in Uzbekistan attempt to establish their legitimacy?"
• "What traditions, practices and forms of rhetoric do individuals draw on to establish legitimacy and authority in Uzbekistan?"  [Here we mean to include such topics as religion, poetry, political maneuvers, speeches, uses of public space (monuments, etc), uses of raw force, etc.]

Make a point of drawing specific information – or at least surmises on the basis of specific information – from *each* of the articles we have read.

By legitimacy I mean something more than mere legal authorization; rather, I mean the willing and authentic granting of rights of eminence, influence and power in a society.  This topic will give you a chance to discuss the issues entailed in the recognition of such rights.

3/29: Adrienne Edgar. “Everday Life among the Turkmen Nomads” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

3/31: Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenbashi), Ruhnama (excerpts) 

4/2: Victoria Clement. “Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan 1904-2004” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

4/5: Paula A. Michaels.  “An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality”  (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

4/7: Cynthia Werner. 2009. “Bride Abduction in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a Shift Towards Patriarchy Through Local Discourses of Shame and Tradition” Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 15: 314-331

4/9: In-class film: The Kidnapped Bride

4/12: Robert Saunders. 2007. “In Defence of Kazakshilik: Kazakhstan’s War on Sacha Baron Cohen,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 14: 3  (In class: Borat, excerpts)

4/14: Morgan Liu. “A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities: Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape” (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

4/16: Madeleine Reeves. “Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands”. (from Everyday Life in Central Asia)

4/21: Greta Uehling.  “Dinner with Akhmet”  (from Everyday Life in Central Asia) 

4/23: Sanchak and Finke:  "Konstitutsia buzildi:  Gender relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan" (from Everyday Life in Central Asia).

4/26:  Nick Megoran:  The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Bourndary: Stalin’s Cartography, Post-Soviet Geography.  In:  Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen. 2010.  Borderlanes and Borderlands:  Political Odities at the Edge of the Nation-state.  London:  Rowman +Littlefield.  Pp. 33-52. 

4/28: Madeline Reeves.  Report on Kyrgyzstan from web. Breaking point: why the Kyrgyz lost their patience

4/30: Discussion