Publications of Nathan Light

Light, N.: Genealogy, history, nation. Nationalities Papers 39 (1), pp. 33 - 53 (2011)

Light, N.: An 8th century Turkic narrative: pragmatics, reported speech and managing information. Turkic Languages 10 (2), p. 155-186 (2006)

Light, N.: Being specific about generalization: Kyrgyz habitual narratives in ethnographic interviews. In: Language change in Central Asia, pp. 33 - 58 (Eds. Ahn, E. S.; Smagulova, J.). De Gruyter, Boston; Berlin (2016)

Light, N.: Self-sufficiency is not enough: ritual intensification and household economies in a Kyrgyz village. In: Oikos and market: explorations in self-sufficiency after socialism, pp. 101 - 136 (Eds. Gudeman, S.; Hann, C.). Berghahn, New York (2015)

Light, N.: Animals in the Kyrgyz ritual economy: symbolic and moral dimensions of economic embedding. In: Economy and ritual: studies of postsocialist transformations, pp. 52 - 78 (Ed. Gudeman, S.). Berghahn, New York (2015)

Light, N.: Muslim histories of China: historiography across boundaries in Central Eurasia. In: Frontiers and boundaries: encounters on China's margins, pp. 151 - 176 (Eds. Rajkai, Z.; Bellér-Hann, I.). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (2012)

Light, N.: Cultural politics and the pragmatics of resistance: reflexive discourses on culture and history. In: Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, pp. 49 - 68 (Ed. Beller-Hann, I.). Ashgate, Aldershot (2007)

Light, N.: Participation and analysis in studying religion in Central Asia. In: Mazar worship in Kyrgyzstan: rituals and practitioners in Talas, pp. 476 - 497 (Ed. Aitpaeva, G.). Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek (2007)

Light, N.: Uyghur. In: Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East, pp. 335 - 348 (Ed. Clements, W. M.). Greenwood Press, Westport (2006)

Gudeman, S.; Hann, C.; Cash, J.; Light, N.; Monova, M.; Tocheva, D.; Vasile, M.; Vidacs, B.: Economy and Ritual, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report: Dapertment II 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia' 2008/2009, pp. 58 - 61 (2010)

Light, N.: Epics, music, and shamans in Central Asia and Southern Siberia. Journal of American Folklore 122 (484), pp. 224 - 228 (2009)

Light, N.: Intimate heritage: creating Uyghur Muqam song in Xinjiang. LIT, Berlin (2008), X, 334 pp.