Down a narrow road

Table of contents:

<strong>Part I Local Identities of Space and Place</strong>

1 The Blessed Home: Residence and Identity in a Uyghur Neighborhood 11 <br>
2 Yining's Mehelle as Suburban Periphery 32<br>
3 Desettling the Land: The Destruction of Uyghur Chthonic Identity 48<br>

<strong>Part II Gender and the Life Cycle</strong><br>

4 Gleaming Eyes, Evil Eyes: Cradle and Cure in Uyghur Child Rearing 67<br>
5 At Play in the Mehelle: The Language and Lore of Uyghur Childhood 92<br>
6 Marriage, Mistresses, and Masculinity: Gender and Adult Social Life 114<br>
7 The Pretty Olturash: Masculinity and Moral Order in Adult Play 143<br>
8 "Women have hair, men have nicknames": Uyghur Nicknaming Practices 168<br>

<strong>Part III Markets and Merchants on the Silk Road</strong><br>

9 Merchants and Markets in the Mehelle 203<br>
10 Yining's Border Trade: Trader-Tourism and Uyghur Sojourning 228<br>

<strong>Part IV Islam in the Mehelle: The Social Dimensions of Uyghur Religious Practice</strong>

11 The False Hajim and the Bad Meshrep: Piety and Politics in Uyghur Islam 255<br>
12 The Hungry Guest: Rhetoric, Reverence, and Reversal in a Uyghur Ramadan 283<br>