PUBL.- Sergej Abaschin, The Sart Problem in Russian Historiography (in German)

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PUBL.- Sergej Abaschin, The Sart Problem in Russian Historiography (in German)

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Abaschin, Sergej: Die Sartenproblematik in der russischen
Geschichtsschreibung des 19. und des ersten Viertels des 20.
Jahrhunderts. Translated (into German) from the Russian by Thomas
Fritzsche and Markus Held.
Berlin (Klaus Schwarz Verlag) 2007 (ANOR ; 18) 133p.
ISBN 978-3-87997-645-4

During the colonial period, empires divided up the world by their gaze
and deeds. They measured, drew maps, categorized and typified.
Situations which were fluid until then had to give way to unequivocal
attributions; this also is true for the identification of groups and
individuals. Binary pairs and dichotomies were central in this
process: A given group of people had to be either this or that.
Abashin's work discusses this problem. It is a case study of the so-
called "Sart problem", and it shows the development of scholarly and
administrative thinking of Russians in Central Asia (but also of
Central Asian authors) about the group called "Sarts". "Sart" was a
term used in part by the people themselves this term referred to,
otherwise it was an ascribed identification for a great number of
Turki-speaking "urban" dwellers.

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