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Beyond Bukhara: trade, identity and interregional exchange across Asia
This article explores the nature of inter-Asian trade dynamics through a consideration of the role played by traders from northern Afghanistan’s Central Asian borderlands. It explores the role that traders from this region have played in commercial exchanges involving China, the Arabian Peninsula and a range of settings in West Asia. In addition to documenting the inter-Asian scope of these traders’ activities, the article also addresses the shifting nature of their identity formations in relationship to successive waves of migration. The traders often identify themselves in relationship to ethno-national identity categories (Turkmen, Uzbek and Tajik) that are politically salient in Central Asia and Afghanistan today. At the same time, the traders also emphasise their being from families that migrated from the territories of the Emirate of Bukhara during the early years of communist rule in the 1920s and 1930s. In the context of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, many of these families moved from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia, often staying for several years in cities and towns in Pakistan. Over the past three decades, Central Asian émigré families have increasingly established their businesses and communities in the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey; they also run offices in the trading cities of maritime China.
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History and AnthropologyISSN
0275-7206Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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Sup1Volume
29Page range
S84-S100Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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- Sussex Asia Publications
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2018-07-03First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-01-13First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-07-03Usage metrics
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