Consuming Identities: Food and Resistance among the Uyghur in Contemporary Xinjiang

Cesàro, M. Cristina

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“…However, Uyghurs continue to use local time in their private lives (Beller-Hann 2002: 60). Moreover, religious differences between the two ethnic groups, as Uyghurs only go to restaurants where Halal food is served, also play a major role in drawing boundaries in the social sphere (Cesaro 2000). In China, inter-ethnic marriage is seen as an important step towards eliminating social barriers and ensuring national unity (Jian 2017).…”

Section: Great Leap Forward: Han Settlement In East Turkestanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Çin’in Avrasya Rüyası Olarak İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı: Ortak Kimlik mi Ortak Korku mu?

Yildirim¹

2019

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The Silk Road Economic Belt is the key component of China's Eurasian Pivot strategy. In this study, China's Eurasian Pivot is approached as a creativity strategy from the perspective of social identity theory. In order to succeed in its creativity strategy, China is trying to create a common in-group identity with the Silk Road Economic Belt countries through the Chinese Dream. However, the Chinese Dream is not perceived as a common identity by Central Asians and Uyghurs. While Central Asians respond China's economic presence in the region positively, they are afraid of demographic changes and cultural influences that Chinese migration will cause. Therefore, the Chinese Dream has been a common fear for Turkic societies along the Silk Road Economic Belt rather than common identity. This fear could be one of the most important factors that will prevent the success of China's Eurasian Pivot in the long run.

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Section: Great Leap Forward: Han Settlement In East Turkestanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Çin’in Avrasya Rüyası Olarak İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı: Ortak Kimlik mi Ortak Korku mu?

Yildirim¹

2019

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“…But in the south, under the Ottoman Empire, both wine and Christianity could be easily used as a distinctive element. Thus, wine and pork functioned for Serbs there as kashrut for Jews and halal for Muslims, that is, as a cultural distinction of their respective communities (see Cesaro 2000). Indeed, the former laws, religious in their origin, often act in addition as cultural laws on which an identity is based.…”

Section: Wine As a Christian Symbolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rakija-nation’s wine culture exploration of wine presence and role in Serbian culture

Rybak¹

2015

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The article discusses the presence of wine in Serbian culture as being rooted in the nation's history, the symbolical meaning the beverage has acquired, and the role it has played in the Serbian identity over centuries. The purpose is to show that wine can function as a marker of cultural boundaries and thus an instrument in the process of identification, as it was in the case for Christian Serbs under the Ottoman Empire. Wine remains deeply rooted in the culture even once it has apparently lost this function. Several juxtapositions with the role of rakija, another culturally meaningful beverage in Serbia, are offered. Given the historical perspective, the paper draws in the argumentation upon literature, both scientific and belles-lettres, supported by observation methods for current developments.

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“…On one pole is the conservative protection provided by the large patriarchal family that is documented in the discussion of Abu-Lughod (footnotes 10, 11) Dami and Shaikh (footnote 9), Xiaowei Zang (footnote 6) and Benson (footnotes 4 and5). The other side of the pole is the modern urban Moslem woman represented in Moghadam (1993) 2 M. Cristina Cesaro (2000) points out that a common everyday practice such as eating creates group boundaries, which help unify groups such as the Uyghurs. These boundaries separate one group from another.…”

Section: Young Uyghur Moslem Girls and Educational Barriersmentioning

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Uyghur Turkic Women and Cultural Change: Young Moslem Women Face the Future

Makofsky¹

2013

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The culture of the Turkic people now extends from the Mediterranean to Western China. The goal of this investigation is to show the importance of anthropological and sociological theory in investigating the profound changes in the world of Central Asia. The first concept is that of cultural identity which has a major impact on the discussion of the Uyghur population of China. The second is locating the discussion of Uyghur women along the important ideal type dimension, the varied range of women from their role in a conservative, patriarchal family structure to that of independent actors in a contemporary urban society. Finally, we understand that young Uyghur women face a different set of choices than those of women in other Moslem cultures or in the rest of China. If they identify with their culture as Uyghur and Moslem, their culture restricts their opportunities as Chinese citizens. As students at Minorities University of China (MUC) in Beijing, the relative freedom of Beijing influences them a great deal. Education and employment are the vehicles for integration into the larger Chinese group. Institutions such as schools of ethnic studies and the college competitive exam (the gaokao) provide opportunities as well as obstacles for Uyghur women, and serve to link Uyghur women to the dynamic aspects of change in the Moslem world.

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Consuming Identities: Food and Resistance among the Uyghur in Contemporary Xinjiang

Cited by 29 publications

References 2 publications

Çin’in Avrasya Rüyası Olarak İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı: Ortak Kimlik mi Ortak Korku mu?

Çin’in Avrasya Rüyası Olarak İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı: Ortak Kimlik mi Ortak Korku mu?

Rakija-nation’s wine culture exploration of wine presence and role in Serbian culture

Uyghur Turkic Women and Cultural Change: Young Moslem Women Face the Future

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