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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Central Asia and Everyday Life; Part 1: Background; Introduction; 1 Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History; Part 2: Communities; Introduction; 2 Everyday Life among the Turkmen Nomads; 3 Recollections of a Hazara Wedding in the 1930s; 4 Trouble in Birgilich; 5 A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities: Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape; Part 3: Gender; Introduction; 6 The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan |
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7 The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s8 Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal; 9 Dinner with Akhmet; Part 4: Performance and Encounters; Introduction; 10 An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality; 11 Konstitutsiya buzildi! Gender Relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; 12 Fat and All That: Good Eating the Uzbek Way; 13 Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays; 14 Music across the Kazakh Steppe; Part 5: Nation, State, and Society in the Everyday; Introduction |
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15 The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians' Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance16 Going to School in Uzbekistan; 17 Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan, 1904-2004; 18 Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands; Part 6: Religion; Introduction; 19 Divided Faith: Trapped between State and Islam in Uzbekistan; 20 Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State; 21 Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in the Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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22 Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia23 Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-388) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Ethnology -- Asia, Central.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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Alltag
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Asia, Central -- Social life and customs
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Central Asia
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Mittelasien
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zanca, Russell
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| ISBN |
9780253013538 |
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0253013534 |
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