THE HISTORY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE UZBEK PEOPLE

This article discusses the ethnographic history of the Uzbek people. The same picture is observed in the composition of the Uyghur ethnic group. For example, not only modern Uyghurs, but also Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, etc. were formed from the Uyghur ethnic group. The same can be said about written records. Evaluation of the role of each of these disciplines as a source of ethnogenetic and ethno-historical information, the need for complexity, synthesis of developments in various sciences have been repeatedly discussed.

Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance

The paper focuses on affective resistance with an emphasis on the context in which resistant action emerges, and on the liberating power of laughter. It adopts the approach of ‘affective ethnographic history’ to examine the activities of the Polish oppositional artistic collective, the Orange Alternative (OA), between 1986 and 1989. The OA organized interventions in the streets of Polish cities which engaged the general public as participants. The focus of the interventions was on the creation of affective atmospheres leading to affective transitions in the participants from fear to the lack of fear. The paper contributes to scholarly debates on resistance in three ways: (1) it proposes that resistance and its efficacy should be assessed not in terms of the form of resistance, but through consideration of resistant action in relation to the context of its emergence; (2) it demonstrates how affective resistance operates through affective atmospheres that result in affective transitions to the state of lack of fear; and (3) it reconsiders the significance of laughter as an affective force that has liberating consequences both within a particular resistance assemblage and beyond it.

De barcos y santos: historia, memoria, y lugar en la identidad mexicana morena o afro-india

Este artículo delinea la forma en que dos relatos de un pueblo ‘afromexicano’ de la Costa Chica de México apuntan a tensiones entre gente "negra" e "india.” Los relatos, que tratan del santo patrimonio del pueblo y de un naufragio de un barco con cargo de gente esclavizada, arrojan luz sobre las afirmaciones de identidad ancladas en la raza y el lugar, especialmente en la fusión de negrura e indigeneidad en la forma del ‘moreno,’ una categoría racial asociada con la Costa Chica. A la vez, los relatos convergen alrededor de eventos históricos concretos y la penetración mutua caracterizada por movimientos espaciales y temporales que han afectado tanto a negros como a indios. Estos movimientos incluyen el comercio de esclavos, el colonialismo, la búsqueda de tierras cultivables, y las migraciones contemporáneas. La historia etnográfica cuyas narraciones entretejo, ubica el desarraigo y la contestación en el centro de los procesos culturales a través de los cuales se construyen lugares e identidades.Abstract: This article examines two stories from an ‘Afromexican’ village on the Costa Chica of Mexico that point to tensions between" black "and" “Indian” peoples. The stories, which deal with the patron saint of the village and the wreck of a slave ship, shed light on affirmations of identity anchored in race and place, especially in the fusion of blackness and indigeneity in the form of ‘moreno’ a racial category associated with the Costa Chica. At the same time, the stories converge around specific historical events and the mutual penetration characterized by spatial and temporal movements that have affected both blacks and Indians. These movements include the slave trade, colonialism, the search for arable land, and contemporary migrations. The ethnographic history whose narrations I interweave, place uprooting and contestation at the center of the cultural processes through which places and identities are constructed.