Tag Archives: dautcher

Old Kashgar: Reconfiguring Space With Bulldozers

Word of Old Kashgar’s imminent destruction has reached The New York Times. The story broke in the American media back in March with the Washington Post, was picked up by the Emirati The National, and [...]

Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China

Just yesterday, I was flipping through an old photocopy of Dr. Jay Dautcher’s Berkeley PhD dissertation in Anthropology, “Folklore and identity in a Uighur community in Xinjiang China”. It’s an excellent read, and it’s based [...]