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Everyday Life in Central Asia – Past and Present

Autor Jeff Sahadeo, Russell Zanca, David W. Montgomery
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2007
For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253219046
ISBN-10: 0253219043
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Central Asia and Everyday Life Part One: Background Introduction; 1.Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History Scott Levi Part Two: Communities Introduction; 2. Everyday Life among the Turkmen Nomads Adrienne Edgar; 3. Recollections of a Hazara Wedding in the 1930s Robert Canfield; 4. Trouble in Birglich Robert Canfield; 5. A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities:Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape Morgan Y. Liu Part Three: Gender Introduction; 6. The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan Douglas Northrop; 7. The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s Marianne Kamp; 8. Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal Elizabeth Constantine; 9. Dinner with Akhmet Greta Uehling Part Four: Performance and Encounters Introduction; 10. An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality Paula A. Michaels; 11. Konstitutsiya Buzildi: Gender Relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Peter Finke and Meltem Sancak; 12. Fat and All That: Good Eating the Uzbek Way Russell Zanca; 13. Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays Laura Adams; 14. Music Across the Kazakh Steppe Michael Rouland Part Five: Nation, State, and Society in the Everyday Introduction; 15. The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians'Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance Kelly McMann; 16. Going to School in Uzbekistan Shoshana Keller; 17. Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan: State, Society, and the Everyday, 1904-2004 Victoria Clement; 18. Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands Madeleine Reeves Part Six: Religion Introduction; 19. Divided Faith: Trapped between State and Islam in Uzbekistan Eric McGlinchey; 20. Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State David Abramson and Elyor Karimov; 21. Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in the Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan Sean Roberts; 22. Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia David Montgomery; 23. Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia Sebastien Peyrouse

Recenzii

[A]n excellent and compelling collection of essays.... [T]his book is a valuable addition to our understanding of not only a region heavily influenced by the Russian/Soviet colonial legacy, but also of the ways in which the everyday confronts often competing notions of identity. --Robert O. Krikorian, George Washington University"Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History e-jrnl" (01/01/2008)

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A lively reader on the peoples and cultures of Central Asia