Bishkek Boys

Bishkek BoysIn this pioneering ethnographic study of identity and integration, author Philipp Schrder explores urban change in Kyrgyzstans capital Bishkek from the vantage point of the male youth living in one neighbourhood. Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies, interethnic relations, friendship, and competing notions of belonging to the city, Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post Socialist economic

among other ills

’ to be worried with or worried over

Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress

The 17 figurines published here are but a small sample of the objects excavated more than 100 years ago at the Bronze Age necropolis at the site of Ayia Paraskevi in Cyprus

early fumigation practices

considered even their English to be a dialect of Italian

and the Islamic revival that preceded the Western presence but came to interact significantly with it

a period that is often glossed over

Easily integrated with other therapeutic models or used alone

and Plato's Symposium via Augustine

Through this comprehensive study of kunqu

while establishing for the first time that Tutankhamun’s iron came from meteorites