GENEALOGICAL IDENTITIES AND PEDIGREES OF UZBEKS

This article, based on historical and anthropological sources, ethnographic materials, highlights the issues of understanding the genealogical identity associated with the genealogies preserved by the Uzbeks and their kinship system. Various ethnographic groups of Uzbeks, ethnocultural structures such as clans (generation, clan) and the processes of their manifestation as a single cultural unit in the same historical space and time are analyzed.