Publications of Nathan Light

Journal Article (2)

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Journal Article
Light, Nathan. 2011. Genealogy, history, nation. Nationalities Papers 39(1): 33–53.
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Journal Article
Light, Nathan. 2006. An 8th century Turkic narrative: pragmatics, reported speech and managing information. Turkic Languages 10(2): 155–186.

Book Chapter (7)

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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2016. Being specific about generalization: Kyrgyz habitual narratives in ethnographic interviews. In: Elise S. Ahn and Juldyz Smagulova (eds.). Language change in Central Asia. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 106. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 33–58.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2015. Self-sufficiency is not enough: ritual intensification and household economies in a Kyrgyz village. In: Stephen Gudeman (ed.). Oikos and market: explorations in self-sufficiency after socialism. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 2. New York: Berghahn, pp. 101–136.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2015. Animals in the Kyrgyz ritual economy: symbolic and moral dimensions of economic embedding. In: Stephen Gudeman (ed.). Economy and ritual: studies of postsocialist transformations. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 1. New York: Berghahn, pp. 52–78.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2012. Muslim histories of China: historiography across boundaries in Central Eurasia. In: Zsombor Rajkai and Ildikó Bellér-Hann (eds.). Frontiers and boundaries: encounters on China's margins. Asiatische Forschungen 156. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 151–176.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2007. Cultural politics and the pragmatics of resistance: reflexive discourses on culture and history. In: Ildiko Beller-Hann (ed.). Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 49–68.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2007. Participation and analysis in studying religion in Central Asia. In: Gulnara Aitpaeva (ed.). Mazar worship in Kyrgyzstan: rituals and practitioners in Talas. Bishkek: Aigine Cultural Research Center, pp. 476–497.
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Book Chapter
Light, Nathan. 2006. Uyghur. In: William M. Clements (ed.). Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife 2. Westport: Greenwood Press, pp. 335–348.

Other (1)

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Other
Gudeman, Stephen, Chris Hann, Jennifer Cash, Nathan Light, Miladina Monova, Detelina Tocheva, Monica Vasile, and Bea Vidacs. 2010. Economy and Ritual. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report: Dapertment II 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia' 2008/2009(1). https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de#page=64.

Book Review (1)

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Book Review
Light, Nathan. 2009. Epics, music, and shamans in Central Asia and Southern Siberia. Journal of American Folklore 122(484): 224–228.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
Light, Nathan. 2008. Intimate heritage: creating Uyghur Muqam song in Xinjiang. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia: HSAE 19. Berlin: LIT.
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