ABSTRACT This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts of bureaucracy, this article illustrates how the state has been moving in, out and through the lives of the people living on the margins of the state. People’s engagement with documents illuminates the temporal dynamics of the state’s spatialization practices and highlights the fluctuating presence of the state. In addition, this article exposes the discrepancies between the classificatory bureaucratic order and the changing realities of everyday life. Gaps between these two domains are filled with what I refer to as entangled documents. People’s attempts to disentangle documents reveal how people on the margins of the state manage encounters with state bureaucracy and provide insight into the internal dynamics of a local bureaucracy.

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从被老鼠吃掉的护照到指纹扫描：吉尔吉斯斯坦-乌兹别克斯坦边境的波动状态和“纠缠文件”

摘要 本文重点介绍吉尔吉斯斯坦边境地区乌兹别克农村人口对身份证件的处理。本文通过探索文件的重要性以及人们对这些官僚主义物质文物的关注，说明了国家如何进入、退出和穿越生活在国家边缘的人们的生活。人们对文件的参与阐明了国家空间化实践的时间动态，并突出了国家的波动存在。此外，本文还揭示了分类官僚秩序与日常生活中不断变化的现实之间的差异。这两个领域之间的空白充满了我所说的纠缠文档。