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 (Citation1996). For the most recent contributions to the debate, see Axel (2002), Willford and Tagliacozzo Citation(2009), Murphy et al. Citation(2011).
Baldauf Citation(1992) provides a good example of the Soviet practice of kraevedenie in Central Asia.
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