ANALYSIS OF CATEGORIES OF IDENTITY IN THE LATE 20th - EARLY 21st CENTURIES ON THE TERRITORY OF MODERN UZBEKISTAN (BASED ON ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MATERIALS)
At the moment, the process of formation and development of the Uzbek identity is one of the key issues in the ethnology and anthropology of Uzbekistan. Today, the historical, ethnological and anthropological science of Uzbekistan is on the verge of a new stage of development. While in the West and in Russia since the end of the 20th century, the revision of old paradigms and their rethinking, the creation of new directions, such as constructivism, ethnosymbolism and postmodernism, have begun in Uzbekistan, they still continue to study historical sciences in accordance with Soviet theories of statehood. The purpose of this article is to study and analyze English-language materials on the identity of Uzbeks before the colonial period. Also, in the article we try to show what categories of identities existed in Central Asia, in particular in the territory of modern Uzbekistan and to reveal how much this stage of the history of Uzbeks was covered in foreign literature. The pertinence of the study stems from the fact that without knowledge and understanding of existing identities before the formation of the Uzbek identity, we will not be able to fully see the picture of this process. As a result, we will be able to understand what identities the Uzbek national identity has incorporated. At the end of the article, we identify the main barriers that have become the reason for the study of this question and try to give our recommendations to fill the existing gaps.
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