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CCAS 29_1 Cover.qxd 04/23/10 04:58 PM Page 1 Central Asian Survey Volume 29 Number 1 March 2010 SPECIAL ISSUE: THE LAND QUESTION IN COLONIAL CENTRAL ASIA Guest Editor: Paolo Sartori Notes on contributors 1 Layers of property in the tsar’s settlement colony: projects of land privatization in Siberia in the late nineteenth century Alberto Masoero 9 Contested grounds: ambiguities and disputes over the legal and fiscal status of land in the Manghit Emirate of Bukhara Florian Schwarz 33 Colonial legislation meets sharı̄ ca: Muslims’ land rights in Russian Turkestan Paolo Sartori 43 Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (c.1880–1915) Beatrice Penati 61 Kazakh Chinggisids, land and political power in the nineteenth century: a case study of Syrymbet Virginia Martin 79 103 Review essay Recent monographs on the social history of Central Asia Jürgen Paul 119 Book reviews Turkestan struggle abroad (from Jadidism to independence), by A. Ahat Andican Stuart Horsman 131 Conflict transformation in Central Asia: irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley, by Christine Bichsel John Heathershaw 133 The ghosts of freedom: a history of the Caucasus, by Charles King Vicken Cheterian 135 The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road, by Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony (eds) Jean-Charles Ducène 137 ‘Studies on Central Asia’, a special issue of Oriente Moderno, LXXXVII (1), 2007, edited by Bahodir Pasilov and Roberto Tottoli Alexander Morrison 139 VOLUME 29 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2010 Reforming pastoral land use in Kyrgyzstan: from clan and custom to self-government and tradition Svetlana Jacquesson CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY Introduction: dealing with states of property in modern and colonial Central Asia Paolo Sartori Central Asian Survey Volume 29 Number 1 March 2010 Special issue: The Land Question in Colonial Central Asia ISSN 0263-4937 CCAS 29_1 Cover.qxd 04/23/10 04:58 PM Page 2 Notes for contributors Central Asian Survey Before preparing your submission, please visit the Central Asian Survey homepage at www.informaworld.com/ ccas for full instructions for authors including a style guide. EDITOR Submission: The Editors welcome submission of material for consideration as a main article, as a review article, or as a shorter topical note. The latter may include comments on articles previously published in Central Asian Survey. Main articles should be broadly consistent with the objectives and scope of Central Asian Survey, and be approximately 5000–7000 words in length. Review articles should be in the range of 1500–2000 words. Deniz Kandiyoti, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK EDITORIAL MANAGER Raphael Jacquet, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Nick Megoran, University of Newcastle, UK EDITORIAL BOARD Touraj Atabaki, University of Leiden, ESCAS; Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas, CESS; Sally N. Cummings, University of St. Andrews; Bhavna Dave, School of Oriental and African Studies; Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford; B. George Hewitt, School of Oriental and African Studies; Virginia Martin, University of Wisconsin, CESS; Michael Reynolds, Princeton University, CESS; Olivier Roy, CNRS, France. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Sergei Abashin, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Roy Allison, London School of Economics; Peter Finke, Zurich University and Max Planck Institute of Ethnography, ESCAS; Dru Gladney, Pomona College; Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge; Alisher Ilkhamov, SOAS; Michael Kaser, University of Oxford; Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College, CESS; Hisao Komatsu, University of Tokyo; Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International University; Ahmed Rashid, writer and journalist; Yaacov Ro’i, Tel Aviv University; John Schoeberlein, Harvard University, CESS; Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University; Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council; Ronald Suny, University of Chicago. Central Asian Survey is the only established peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal in the world concerned with the history, politics, cultures, religions and economies of the Central Asian and Caucasian regions. These include primarily the republics of former Soviet Central Asia and the South and North Caucasus. Also covered are Chinese Xinjiang, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. The central aim of the journal is to reflect and promote advances in area-based scholarship in the social sciences and humanities and enhance understanding of processes of local and regional change that make Central Asia and the Caucasus an area of significant contemporary interest. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SERVICES Central Asian Survey is currently noted in America History and Life: CAB Abstracts: GEOBASE: Historical Abstracts: IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences); Periodica Islamica; International Political Science Abstracts: International Development Abstracts: Sociological Abstracts: Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts. For more information about Central Asian Survey, please visit the journal webpage at: http://www.informaworld.com/ccas © 2010 Central Asian Survey Editorial correspondence, including submissions to the journal, should be sent to Raphael Jacquet by electronic mail at: [email protected]. Should email be unavailable, the following address can be used, although delays in response may occur: School of Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H OXG, UK. If sending by mail, please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors. Presentation: Manuscripts should be typed in journal style, one and one-half spaced (including notes and references) with wide margins, on one side only on good quality paper. Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order of presentation. First sheet: title; subtitle (if any); author’s name, affiliation, full postal address and telephone (and/or Fax) number; acknowledgements (if any). Respective affiliations and addresses of co-authors should be clearly indicated. Subsequent sheets: main body of text; list of references and footnotes; appendices; tables (on separate sheets); captions to illustrations (on a separate sheet); illustrations. The text should be organized under appropriate section headings. References and notes: Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred. A typical article will be 6000–8000 words in length. Papers that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript. Book reviews should not exceed 1200 words, and review articles 3,500–4,000 words. • Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); notes; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list). • Abstracts of approximately 150 words are required for all papers submitted. • Each paper should have 4–6 keywords. • Section headings should be concise and indicated in bold font. Sub-headings should be indicated in italic font. • All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author. • Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal. • For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used. • References should be in Harvard style and should be cited in the text by the author and date, e.g. Smith (2007) or (Smith and Brown 2007). Full details should be given in a reference list at the end as in the following examples: Collins, K., 2006. Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ouzgane, L., 2006. Islamic masculities: an introduction. In: L. Ouzgane, ed. Islamic Masculinities. London: Zed, 1–7. Wegerich, K., 2006. ‘A little help from my friend?’ Analysis of network links on the meso level in Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey, 25 (1–2), 115–128. Kucera, J., 2006. Skepticism greets Uzbek government video on Andijan events. Eurasianet, 18 May 2006. 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