Comments on: Bishkek, anyone? /2005/12/12/bishkek-anyone/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: J. Otto Pohl /2005/12/12/bishkek-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:51:17 +0000 /2005/12/12/bishkek-anyone/#comment-2490 Actually AUCA has been around for a while now. It used to be AUK. Out of 75 jobs I applied to last year it was the only place that even gave me an interview. Needless to say I still did not get the job. Even American universities abroad value teaching over publication.

There were Mennonite settlements in Kygyzstan. But, most of them converted to Baptism in the years after WWII. By 1 September 1981 there were only 602 Mennonites living in Kyrgyzstan in registered congregations versus 4,175 German Baptists. Soviet records show another 232 Mennonites in unregistered, i.e. “underground” congregations in Kyrgyzstan at this time. Over 60% of Baptists in Kyrgyzstan were ethnic Germans by this time almost all of them converts from Mennonitism since WWII or their descendents.

Source G.K. Krongradt, *Nemtsy v Kyrgyzstane 1880-1990 gg.* (Bishkek, Ilim, 1997), table 10, p. 326.

]]> By: Ozma /2005/12/12/bishkek-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-2469 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:33:28 +0000 /2005/12/12/bishkek-anyone/#comment-2469 Mennonites as a plot device! an overlooked gambit in most novel-writing. While in Paraguay I read _Escape Across the Amur River_ — a first-hand Mennonite account of an actual journey across the Russian/Chinese Siberian border — which I’d be happy to pass along should a second novel be in progress and in need of additional source material.

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