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The ethnogenesis of the Uighur
Central Asian survey • 9 (1) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 1-28
By: Gladney, Dru C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking, Muslim, oasis-dwelling people who claim to have lived in Tarim Basin area since time immemorial. Historically, a seventh century Uyghur Kingdom rose in the Outer Mongolian area, alongside the Han Chinese Empire of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Islamization began in the tenth century. Despite conquest by the Qing Dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century, the Xinjiang region was only fully incorporated into the empire during the next century through encouragement of Han resettlement. In the 1940s, the Soviet Union and China began to refer to the oasis people of the region as "Uyghurs." The author discusses the multiple, shifting markers of identity in the region, based on differences in religion, territory, language, class, and politics. The incorporation of the region into a modern socialist state has had a unifying effect on Uyghur identity and ethnicity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Cultural identity and pride
- Provinces
- External relations
- Theological systems
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 745-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inner Asia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dru C. Gladney
- Uyghur relationship to Han Chinese and China is variously indexed by ocm's for "International relations" (648), "Provinces" (635), "Dependencies" (636), and "Inter-ethnic relations" (629).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-28)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86641151
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Uighur (Turkic people)