The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES REVIEW (CESR) is a publication of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). CESR is a scholarly review of research, resources, events, publications and developments in scholarship and teaching on Central Eurasia. The Review appears two times annually (Winter and Summer) beginning with Volume 4 (2005) and is distributed free of charge to dues paying members of CESS. It is available by subscription at a rate of $50 per year to institutions within North America and $65 outside North America. The Review is also available to all interested readers via the web. Guidelines for Contributors are available via the web at http://www.cesr-cess.org/CESR_contribution.html. As of issue 6-1, CESS will move to an all on-line format. For more information, see the above-mentioned website. CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES REVIEW Editorial Board Chief Editor: Marianne Kamp (Laramie, WY, USA) Section Editors: Perspectives: Robert M. 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Business correspondence, including membership and subscription information, back issues, changes of address and related communications should be addressed to: The Central Eurasian Studies Society. CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY c/o The Havighurst Center Harrison Hall, Miami University Oxford, OH 45056, USA Tel.: +1/513-529-0241 Fax: +1/513-529-0242 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cess.muohio.edu Dear Central Eurasian Studies Review Readers and Subscribers: The present issue of CESR, 5-2, concludes Central Eurasian Studies Review’s fifth year of publication. The CESS Publications Committee has decided to make some changes, and these affect the form and content that CESR will take in the future. Issue 5-2 is CESR’s final hard copy (paper) publication. CESR will continue, but in on-line format only. CESR will be accessible freely to all through CESS’s website. Our goal in establishing CESR was to create a medium for communication among scholars, so that we could be better informed about research, conferences, books, and education in Central Eurasian Studies. At the same time, CESS also has long intended to work toward some form of peer-reviewed publication. The CESS board, in consultation with the publications committee, and with Central Asian Survey editor Deniz Kandiyoti, is now committed to strengthening an existing journal, Central Asian Survey (CAS), by providing editorial input (with three CESS members on CAS’s commissioning editorial board, and two CESS members on CAS’s board of international advisors), participating in CAS’s peer review process, and by encouraging CESS members to submit their scholarly articles, based on completed research, to CAS. We will also encourage CESS members to contact CAS’s book review editor (currently Nick Megoran), about their interest in reviewing books, or having books reviewed. CESS is negotiating a special subscription rate to CAS for CESS members. CESR will continue publication on-line, and will focus directly on publishing materials that enhance communication among scholars in our field. We will continue to publish reports of research in progress, conference reports, and reports on teaching about Central Eurasia. We will also publish occasional thought pieces (especially presidential addresses) and responses to those. We hope to expand publication of brief notices on research conditions. CESR will no longer publish book reviews; instead we will work toward expanding CAS’s reviews section. If you are considering submitting your own work for publication, we will make the following suggestions: • If your article would have been submitted to CESR’s Perspectives section, please consider submitting it to Central Asian Survey. • If you have written a conference paper or an article that is based on thorough research and is ready for peer- review, please consider submitting it to Central Asian Survey. • If you have written a conference paper or article that presents work in progress, we encourage you to submit that to CESR. • If you have participated in or attended a conference that focuses on Central Eurasia, please consider sharing information with your colleagues by writing a conference report and submitting it to CESR. • If you are teaching a course in Central Eurasian Studies, or are involved in a program or center that teaches courses in Central Eurasian Studies, CESR would like to publish your report on that course or program. • If you are undertaking research in the Central Eurasian region, please write a brief report on research conditions for publication in CESR. As CESR transitions to its new format, there will be further changes to content, as new interests emerge. CESR will also put out a call for volunteer editors to work on specific sections of the on-line publication. Over the past five years, a rather small but dedicated group has volunteered countless hours toward establishing CESR, soliciting articles, interacting with authors, editing, polishing, formatting, producing, working with printers, and getting CESR into your hands both on paper and on-line. As editor of CESR, I want to thank all of you for your hard work, and for your belief that we can improve the quality of publication in Central Eurasian Studies. I also thank the many of you who have contributed your own written work to CESR, making your thoughts and your research available to CESR’s readership across the world. Sincerely, Marianne Kamp Editor-in-Chief, Central Eurasian Studies Review Central Eurasian Studies Review Publication of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Volume 5, Number 2 Summer 2006 ISSN 1538-5043 Contents PERSPECTIVES What Jadidism Was, and What It Wasn’t: The Historiographical Adventures of a Term, Adeeb Khalid ........................... 3 Theme Section: Knowledge-Making about Central Eurasia Comparative Perspectives on Central Asia and the Middle East in Social Anthropology and the Social Sciences (Part 2 of 2), Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek .................................................................................................... 7 Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through “Orientalist” Eyes, Ali F. İğmen ...................................................................................... 13 Reflections on a Central Eurasian Model: A Foucauldian Reply to Barfield on the Historiography of Ethno- Nationalisms, Şener Aktürk .................................................................................................................................... 19 First Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social Anthropology: Anthropology of the State — the State of Anthropology, David Gullette .......................................................................................... 25 RESEARCH REPORTS Trans-Caspian Pipelines and Implications for Security in the Caspian Region, Taleh Ziyadov ........................................ 30 Internationalization of Higher Education in Kyrgyzstan: Three Potential Problems, Martha C. Merrill ......................... 34 External Labor Migration of Kyrgyzstan’s Indigenous Population and Its Socio-Economic Consequences, Ulan Ergeshbaev ...................................................................................................................................................... 40 International Broadcasting to Central Asia: The Voice of Reason or Opposition? Navbahor Imamova .......................... 43 Methodological Problems in the Studies of Varnish Miniatures of Uzbekistan, Ravshan Fatchullaev .............................. 47 Discourse on Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Buryatia, Tatyana D. Skrynnikova and Darima D. Amogolonova ....................... 50 REVIEWS Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Reviewed by Matthew J. Payne .............................................................................................................................. 56 Kahar Barat, trans., ed., The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang, Ninth and Tenth Chapters. Reviewed by James A. Millward ............................................................ 57 Valery Tishkov, Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Reviewed by Michael A. Reynolds ........................................... 58 Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-Systems Biography. Reviewed by Rebecca Gould ................................................................................................................................... 60 Stephen F. Jones, Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy 1883-1917. Reviewed by Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. ........................................................................................................................