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Author Sahadeo, Jeff, 1967-

Title Everyday Life in Central Asia : Past and Present.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (418 pages)
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Contents 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.
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.
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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-388) and index.
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Subject Ethnology -- Asia, Central.
Ethnology.
Central Asia.
Asia, Central -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Zanca, Russell.
Other Form: Print version: Sahadeo, Jeff. Everyday Life in Central Asia : Past and Present. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007 9780253348838
ISBN 9780253013538 electronic book
0253013534 electronic book
9780253348838
0253348838
9780253219046
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