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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 I smiled. She is sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1193294&amp;post=140&amp;subd=bordersca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1193294&amp;post=138&amp;subd=bordersca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ETHNICITY ≠ LANGUAGE: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY, OR ON HOW TAJIKS BECAME UZBEKS</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1193294&amp;post=136&amp;subd=bordersca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1193294&amp;post=135&amp;subd=bordersca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordersca.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1193294&amp;post=134&amp;subd=bordersca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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