ANOR is a series of short monographs papers on the history and culture of Muslim Central Asia. The papers deal with various topics related to this region such as history, literature, anthropology.
Svetlana Gorshenina Knihy
This volume explores new theoretical approaches in visual and memory studies, reexamining 19th and early 20th-century photography of Russian Turkestan. It interprets photography as a tool that shapes reality within various contexts and reveals diverse cultural norms and power relations influencing the representation of Central Asia. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students.
The book focuses on the relational dynamic between “masters” and “natives” in the construction of scholarly narratives about the past, in the fields of archeology, history or the study of religions. Reconsidering the role of subaltern actors that recent postcolonial studies have tended to ignore, the present book emphasizes the complex relations between representatives of the imperial power and local actors, and analyzes how masters and natives (and their respective cultures) have shaped each other in the course of the interaction. Through various vectors of intercultural transfer and knowledge exchange, through the circulation of ideas, techniques and human beings, new visions of the past of extra-European regions emerged, as did collective memories resulting from various kinds of appropriations. In this framework, the most important question is how these dynamic processes determined collective memories of the past in plural (post-)colonial – in particular, Asian – worlds, participating to the construction of national/imperial/local identities and to the reinvention of traditions.