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Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan - Ismailbekova, Aksana
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A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with ...

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Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan 2017, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253025289

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Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan 2017, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253025395

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