English-language Anthropology on the Uzbek Identity at the end of the XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2020-49-1/239-258

Abstract

The process of forming and developing Uzbek identity is one of the key issues in Uzbekistan’s ethnology. During the Soviet period, this process was considered from the perspective of the primordial theory of ethnos. And today, the Soviet methodological approaches still dominate in the Uzbek ethnology. Western concepts of constructivism, instrumentalism, ethnosymbolism, modernism and postmodernism are rather applied as fashionable terms than as research methods. This is largely due to the fact that most Uzbek ethnologists are still not familiar with foreign literature. Staying isolated from the foreign science, our scholars vaguely imagine what their Western colleagues write about the Uzbek identity. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap and to show a panorama of Western anthropologists’ views on the formation and development of Uzbek identity.

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