Introduction

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Acknowledgements

The guest editors would like to acknowledge the VolkswagenStiftung's support of the research project ‘Genealogy and history: collective identities in contemporary Kyrgyzstan’, carried out at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien - Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien in Halle, Germany. This special issue took shape within the framework of this project.

Notes

On the earlier developments of this debate, see Kalb and Tak (1996). For the most recent contributions to the debate, see Axel (2002), Willford and Tagliacozzo (2009), Murphy et al. (2011).

Baldauf (1992) provides a good example of the Soviet practice of kraevedenie in Central Asia.

See for instance O'Brien and Roseberry (1991) and, in the case of Central Asia, Sneath (2007).