Bride abduction in post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a shift towards patriarchy through local discourses of shame and tradition

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 314-331

  Werner, Cynthia ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549166781     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01555.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abu-Lughod, L. 1986. Veiled sentiments: Honor and poetry in Bedouin society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Abu-Lughod, L. 1993. Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3. Ahearn, L.M. 2001. Invitations to love: Literacy, love letters, and social change in Nepal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
4. Akiner, S. 1997. Between tradition and modernity: The dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women. In Post-Soviet women: From the Baltic to Central Asia (ed.) M. Buckley, 261-304. Cambridge: University Press.
5. Amsler, S. & R. Kleinbach 1999. Bride kidnapping in the Kyrgyz Republic. International Journal of Central Asian Studies 4, 185-216.
6. Anagnost, A. 1997. National past-times: Narrative, representation and power. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
7. Argynbaev, K. 1978. Marriage and marriage rites among the Kazakhs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In The nomadic alternative: modes and models of interaction in the African-Asian deserts and steppes (ed.) W. Weissleder, 331-41. The Hague: Mouton.
8. Ayres, B. 1974. Bride theft and raiding for wives in cross-cultural perspective. Anthropological Quarterly 47, 238-52.
9. Bacon, E. 1980 [1966]. Central Asians under Russian rule: A study in culture change. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
10. Barnes, R.H. 1999. Marriage by capture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 5, 57-73.
11. Bates, D.G. 1974. Normative and alternative systems of marriage among the Yoruk of Southeastern Turkey. Anthropological Quarterly 47, 270-87.
12. Bauer, A., N. Boschmann & D. Green 1997. Women and gender relations in Kazakstan. Manila: Asian Development Bank.
13. Foucault, M. 1990 [1976]. The history of sexuality, vol. I (trans. R. Hurley). New York: Vintage.
14. Gal, S. & G. Kligman 2000. The politics of gender after socialism. Princeton: University Press.
15. Handrahan, L. 2000. Implications of international human rights law and bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies 16, 97-114.
16. Handrahan, L. 2004. Hunting for women: Bride-kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. International Feminist Journal of Politics 6, 207-33.
17. Human Rights Watch 2006. Reconciled to violence: State failure to stop domestic abuse and the abduction of women in Kyrgyzstan, 27 September (available on-line: http://hrw.org/reports/2006/kyrgyzstan0906/, accessed 12 February 2009).
18. Kamp, M. 2008. The new woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, modernity and unveiling under communism. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
19. Kandiyoti, D. 1988. Bargaining with patriarchy. Gender and Society 2, 274-90.
20. Kandiyoti, D. 2007. The politics of gender and the Soviet paradox: neither colonized, nor modern? Central Asian Survey 26, 601-23.
21. Kleinbach, R. 2003. Frequency of non-consensual bride kidnapping in the Kyrgyz Republic. International Journal of Central Asian Studies 8, 108-28.
22. Kleinbach, R., M. Ablezova & M. Aitieva 2005. Kidnapping for marriage (ala kachuu) in a Kyrgyz village. Central Asian Survey 24, 191-202.
23. Kleinbach, R. & L. Salimjanova 2007. Kyz ala kachuu and adat: non-consensual bride kidnapping and tradition in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey 26, 217-33.
24. Kuehnast, K. 1998. From pioneers to entrepreneurs: Young women, consumerism, and the 'world picture' in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey 17, 639-54.
25. Lloyd-Roberts, S. 1999. Kyrgyz bride theft goes awry. BBC Worldnews, 22 March.
26. Lom, P. 2004a. The kidnapped bride. Frontline/World, 25 March. 20 minutes.
27. Lom, P. 2004b. Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. First Run/Icarus Films. 51 minutes.
28. McLaren, A.E. 2001. Marriage by abduction in twentieth-century China. Modern Asian Studies 35, 953-84.
29. M c L ennan, J.F. 1970 [1865]. Primitive marriage: An inquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies. Chicago: University Press.
30. Mani, L. 1998. Contentious traditions: The debate on sati in colonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
31. Martin, V. 2001. Law and custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian colonialism in the nineteenth century. London: Curzon.
32. Massell, G. 1974. The surrogate proletariat. Princeton: University Press.
33. Maynard, M. 1993. Violence towards women. In Thinking feminism: Key concepts in women's studies (eds) D. Richardson & V. Robinson, 88-122. New York: Guilford.
34. Merry, S.E. 2006. Human rights and gender violence: Translating international law into local justice. Chicago: University Press.
35. Michaels, P. 1998. Kazak women: Living the heritage of a unique past. In Women in Muslim societies: Diversity within unity (eds) H.L. Bodman & N. Tohidi, 187-202. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner.
36. Northrop, D. 2004. Veiled empire: Gender and power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
37. Penn, M.L. & R. Nardos 2003. Overcoming violence against women and girls: The international campaign to eradicate a worldwide problem. Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield.
38. Schatz, E. 2004. Modern clan politics: The power of 'blood'in Kazakhstan and beyond. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
39. Smith, C.S. 2005. The bridal 'grab and run'. The International Herald Tribune, 29 April.
40. Snajdr, E. 2005. Gender, power, and the performance of justice: Muslim women's responses to domestic violence in Kazakhstan. American Ethnologist 32, 294-311.
41. Stross, B. 1974. Tzeltal marriage by capture. Anthropological Quarterly 47, 328-46.
42. Tadjbaksh, S. 1998. Between Lenin and Allah: Women and ideology in Tajikistan. In Women in Muslim societies: Diversity within unity (eds) H.L. Bodman & N. Tohidi, 163-85. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner.
43. Taizhanov, G.E. 1995. Kazakhi: Istorikho-etnograficheskoe issledovanie. Almaty: Kazakhstan Publishers.
44. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 2007. Fact sheet on bride kidnapping (available on-line: http://www.unfpa.org/16days/documents/ pl_bridenapping_factsheet.doc, accessed 12 February 2009).
45. Walley, C. 2006. Searching for 'voices': Feminism, anthropology, and the global debates over female genital operations. In Feminist anthropology: a reader (ed.) E. Lewin, 333-57. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
46. Werner, C. 2004a. Women, marriage, and the nation-state: The rise of nonconsensual bride kidnapping in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. In Reconceptualizing Central Asia: States and societies in formation (ed.) P. Jones Luong, 59-89. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
47. Werner, C. 2004b. Feminizing the new Silk Road: Women traders in rural Kazakhstan. In Post-Soviet women encountering transition: Nation building, economic survival, and civic activism (eds) K. Kuehnast & C. Nechemias, 105-26. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
48. Wikan, U. 2008. In honor of Fadime: Murder and shame. Chicago: University Press.
49. Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) 2005. Beijing betrayed: Women worldwide report that governments failed to turn the platform into action. New York: WEDO. March.
50. Zhurzhenko, T. 2004. Strong women,weak state: family politics and nation building in post-Soviet Ukraine. In Post-Soviet women encountering transition: nation building, economic survival and civic activism (eds) K. Kuehnast & C. Nechemias, 23-43. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.