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		<title>rejecting one&#8217;s identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Turkish shop
Me: Bonjour, un melon
Her: 1,95 euro
ME: teshekkurler (thanks)
Her: Turkmisin? (are you a Turk?)
Me: No, I am from Uzbekistan
Her: Ah Uzbaekistan, Uzbek?
Me: Evet, amma, Tajik (Yes, but Tajik)
Her: Tajik? (puzzled)
Me: Fors (Persian as language)
Her: Fors&#8230;? (pause) Non. Turk
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		<title>ETHNICITY ≠ LANGUAGE: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY, OR ON HOW TAJIKS BECAME UZBEKS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Borderless Borderguard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part VI
Bergne, in his two page-long accounts on Sarts, shows how uncertain Russian ethnographers were regarding the origins of the Sarts. They were divided according to their assumptions. Noteworthy features of Sarts are: they are settled, urban dwellers and bilingual. Some called themselves Tajik, some Uzbek, but spoke both languages. But the term Sart remains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&blog=1193294&post=138&subd=bordersca&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ETHNICITY ≠ LANGUAGE: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY, OR ON HOW TAJIKS BECAME UZBEKS</title>
		<link>http://bordersca.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/ethnicity-%e2%89%a0-language-in-search-of-identity-or-on-how-tajiks-became-uzbeks-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Borderless Borderguard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part V
Sengupta argues that language ‘was never a barrier&#8217;: &#8220;Various Turkic groups lived in intense symbiosis with non-Turkic groups without fully assimilating with them&#8221; (ibid: 64). She further notes that in some areas &#8220;assimilation was inevitable&#8221; and that they intermixed with each other to the extent that it was difficult to discern any difference whatsoever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&blog=1193294&post=136&subd=bordersca&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Borderless Borderguard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part IV
The question remains what was the role of language in the whole delimitation process? It was recorded (by ethnographers, travellers, and officials) in what languages people spoke, widely either Turkic or Iranian (Persian or Eastern Iranian). For the Soviet bureaucracy language was an important signifier in determining ethnicities and drawing boundaries to separate them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&blog=1193294&post=135&subd=bordersca&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Borderless Borderguard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part III
At this point my personal observations seem to be of scholarly relevance.[1] I noticed that indeed many people who in their daily life identify themselves as Tajiks and speak Tajik might have an absolutely different identity when it comes to officialdom, i.e. passports, statistics. For instance, in my class at school and university all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&blog=1193294&post=134&subd=bordersca&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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