Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Review

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Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China (Harvard East Asian Monographs) ReviewJay Dautcher has written a great ethnography with a level of wide-ranging detail that is rare in modern academic work, along with a depth of discussion of the ways in which male identity is constructed through male relationships, teasing, and nicknaming. His interspersing of jokes and fieldnotes add additional color to his story.
As someone who has visited several parts of Central Asia, there were times in reading this when I was surprised to see some small detail of culture, life-cycle or place which I would never have thought to record -- but which Jay has recorded. These details of life on an everyday level, and the exploration of Uyghur life in Xinjiang (especially being outside of Urumchi, and not focused primarily on ethnonationalism), are rare and valuable.
In some ways, the weakest part of this to me was his symbolic analysis of masculinity and sexuality as seen through jokes, anecdotes, and conversation. At points it seemed almost Freudian, where a comment offered at one level is interpreted at a much deeper level. His discussion of nicknaming and engagement with onomastics (the study of names), however, is a valuable addition to the ethnography of Central Asia. It's definitely worth your time to read at least a chapter or two from this book!Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Overview

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