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The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group speaking an Eastern Turkic language who are found mostly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China, with smaller but significant numbers in the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and far fewer in Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Once pastoralists, Uyghurs settled oasis regions where they traditionally practice a mixed agriculture including cash crops and livestock, and participate extensively in trade; many recently have found employment in mineral and petroleum extraction. The majority of the Uyghur are Sunni Muslims. Modern Uyghur literature ranges from short stories, essays, and love poetry to epic folk legends

Crafts, entrepreneurship and gendered economic relations in southern Xinjiang in the era of 'socialist commodity economy'

The written and the spoken

Rivalry and solidarity among Uyghur healers in Kazakhstan

The peasant condition in Xinjiang

Hair-raising stories

Consuming identities

Down a narrow road

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The ethnogenesis of the Uighur

Uyghurs and Uyghur identity

Oasis identities

Religious legitimation in the healing practice of an Uyghur preacher

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó	Crafts, entrepreneurship and gendered economic relations in southern Xinjiang in the era of 'socialist commodity economy'	1998
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó	The written and the spoken	2000
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó	Rivalry and solidarity among Uyghur healers in Kazakhstan	2001
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó	The peasant condition in Xinjiang	1997
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó	Hair-raising stories	2004
Cesaro, M. Christina	Consuming identities	2000
Dautcher, Jay	Down a narrow road	2009
Eitzen, Hilda C.	Culture Summary	2023
Gladney, Dru C.	The ethnogenesis of the Uighur	1990
Kamberi, Dolkun	Uyghurs and Uyghur identity	2005
Rudelson, Justin Jon	Oasis identities	1997
Wang, Jianxin	Religious legitimation in the healing practice of an Uyghur preacher	1996

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