TY - BOOK ID - 77901642 TI - Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh PY - 2012 SN - 0822977923 9780822977926 1306555868 9781306555869 9780822961772 0822961776 PB - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nativistic movements KW - Post-communism KW - Uzbeks KW - Ethnic revivals KW - Messianic cults KW - Prophetistic movements KW - Sects, Nativistic KW - Cults KW - Ethnology KW - Nationalism KW - Religion KW - Messianism KW - Postcommunism KW - World politics KW - Communism KW - Usbeg (Turkic people) KW - Uzbeg (Turkic people) KW - Uzbek (Turkic people) KW - Turkic peoples KW - Government relations. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Osh (Kyrgyzstan) KW - Osh (Kirghiz S.S.R.) KW - Politics and government. KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901642 AB - Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region a ER -