Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014

by Victoria Clement

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964635
• ISBN13: 9780822964636
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"