TY - GEN T1 - Learning to become Turkmen : literacy, language, and power, 1914-2014 T2 - Central Eurasia in context. A1 - Clement, Victoria (Analyst) LA - English PP - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - University of Pittsburgh Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1036986481 AB - Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life--in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies--reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century. As Victoria Clement shows, the formal structures of the Russian imperial state did not affect Turkmen cultural formations nearly as much as Russian language and Cyrillic script. Their departure was also as transformative to Turkmen politics and society as their arrival. Complemented by extensive fieldwork, Learning to Become Turkmen is the first book in a Western language to draw on Turkmen archives, as it explores how Eurasia has been shaped historically. Revealing particular ways that Central Asians relate to the rest of the world, this study traces how Turkmen consciously used language and pedagogy to position themselves within global communities such as the Russian/Soviet Empire, the Turkic cultural continuum, and the greater Muslim world. OP - 259 CN - P40.85.T93 C54 2018eb SN - 9780822986102 SN - 0822986108 SN - 9780822964636 SN - 0822964635 KW - Language and education : Turkmenistan : History. KW - Turkmen : Education : History. KW - Language policy : Turkmenistan : History. KW - Turkmen language : Social aspects : History. KW - Turkmen language : Political aspects : History. KW - Russian language : Turkmenistan : History : 20th century. KW - Turkmènes : Éducation : Histoire. KW - Turkmène (Langue) : Aspect social : Histoire. KW - Turkmène (Langue) : Aspect politique : Histoire. KW - Russe (Langue) : Turkménistan : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture. KW - HISTORY : Asia : Central Asia. KW - Language and education KW - Language policy KW - Russian language KW - Turkmenistan KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -