R. Charles Weller (2023). Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

Year 2025, Volume: 25 Issue: 1, 309 - 313, 24.06.2025

Tayfun Beceren

https://doi.org/10.32449/egetdid.1686758

Abstract

Tarihsel-kültürel "kalıntılar" (survivals) kavramının entelektüel kökenlerini ve dönüşümünü inceleyen bu eser, Çarlık ve Sovyet etnografisinin Orta Asya’daki Müslüman topluluklara yönelik yaklaşımını eleştirel bir çerçevede değerlendirir. Yahudi, Hristiyan ve Müslüman geleneklerden Aydınlanma ve Romantizme, oradan da postkolonyal tarih yazımına uzanan geniş bir yelpazede senkretizm, dönüşüm ve kimlik meselelerini tartışır.

Keywords

Pre-Islamic Survivals , Muslim Central Asia , Tsarist Ethnography , Soviet Ethnography , Post-Soviet Ethnography

R. Charles Weller (2023). Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

Abstract

This volume traces the intellectual genealogy of the concept of cultural "survivals" and examines its role in shaping Tsarist and Soviet ethnographic approaches to Muslim communities in Central Asia. Drawing on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, as well as Enlightenment and Romanticist thought, it explores themes of syncretism, conversion, and identity within the broader context of postcolonial historiographical debates.

Keywords

Pre-Islamic Survivals , Muslim Central Asia , Tsarist Ethnography , Soviet Ethnography , Post-Soviet Ethnography

References

• Weller, R. C. (2023). ‘Pre-Islamic survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet ethnography in world historical perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5697-3