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Crafts, entrepreneurship and gendered economic relations in southern Xinjiang in the era of 'socialist commodity economy'
Central Asian survey • 17 (4) • Published In 1998 • Pages: 701-718
By: Bellér-Hann, Ildikó.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the gendered relationships and transactions in the making and selling of the traditional embroidered Uyghur hat in the oasis town of Qäşqär (Kashgar). Because of traditional Uyghur modesty codes, women's work is primarily restricted to housekeeping and childcare in the home. Men's work is outside the home and includes agriculture, craft production, factory work, and day laborer jobs. The marketplace is also primarily a male domain. However, hat making is a traditional women's craft that has allowed them to organize both production and merchandizing outside the domestic sphere. The author describes the set of social relationships and informal exchange transactions, including women’s rotating credit associations that allow this "underground" female economy to function in an otherwise male-dominated realm.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Clothing manufacture
- Borrowing and lending
- Insurance
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Visiting and hospitality
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Uyghur
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2023
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1995-1996
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1995-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kashgar (Qäşqär), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ildikó Bellér-Hann
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86641151
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Uighur (Turkic people)