The Uncertain Consequences of the Socialist Pursuit of Certainty: The Case of Uyghur Villagers in Eastern Xinjiang, China

The article is based on the author's conviction that ethnographic analysis can illuminate big issues of world history. In the framework of substantivist economic anthropology, concepts of (un) certainty and social security are applied to Chinese socialism, which has outlived its Soviet prototyp...

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Main Author: Chris Hann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2013-07-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/269/index.php?id=269