TY - BOOK ID - 78646331 TI - Learning to become Turkmen PY - 2018 SN - 0822986108 9780822986102 9780822964636 0822964635 PB - Pittsburgh, Pa. DB - UniCat KW - Russian language KW - Turkmen language KW - Language policy KW - Turkmen KW - Language and education KW - Educational linguistics KW - Education KW - Language and languages KW - Akhal Tekke-Turkomans KW - Salor-Turkomans KW - Sarik-Turkomans KW - Tekke-Turkomans KW - Turcomans KW - Turkmens KW - Turkomans KW - Ethnology KW - Turkic peoples KW - Glottopolitics KW - Institutional linguistics KW - Language and state KW - Languages, National KW - Languages, Official KW - National languages KW - Official languages KW - State and language KW - Communication policy KW - Language planning KW - Turkman language KW - Turkoman language KW - Turkic languages KW - Turkic languages, Southwest KW - Slavic languages, Eastern KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Government policy KW - Turkmenistan. KW - Republic of Turkmenistan KW - Respublika Turkmenistan KW - Torukumenisutan KW - Tukumansitan KW - Turcomenistão KW - Turkmanistān KW - Türkmenisztán KW - Turkmenostan Respublikasy KW - T'urŭk'ŭmenisŭt'an UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646331 AB - Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life--in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies--reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century. As Victoria Clement shows, the formal structures of the Russian imperial state did not affect Turkmen cultural formations nearly as much as Russian language and Cyrillic script. Their departure was also as transformative to Turkmen politics and society as their arrival. Complemented by extensive fieldwork, Learning to Become Turkmen is the first book in a Western language to draw on Turkmen archives, as it explores how Eurasia has been shaped historically. Revealing particular ways that Central Asians relate to the rest of the world, this study traces how Turkmen consciously used language and pedagogy to position themselves within global communities such as the Russian/Soviet Empire, the Turkic cultural continuum, and the greater Muslim world. ER -