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Everyday life in Central Asia : past and present / edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca - ix, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-388) and index

-- Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian history -- Everyday life among the Turkmen nomads -- Recollections of a Hazara wedding in the 1930s Trouble in Birgilich -- Central Asian tale of two cities : locating lives and aspirations in a shifting post-Soviet cityscape -- Limits of liberation : gender, revolution, and the veil in everyday life in Soviet Uzbekistan -- Wedding Feast : living the new Uzbek life in the 1930s -- Practical consequences of Soviet policy and ideology for gender in Central Asia and contemporary reversal -- Dinner with Akhmet -- Ethnohistorical journey through Kazakh hospitality -- Konstitutsiya buzildi! : gender relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- Fat and all that : good eating the Uzbek way -- Public and private celebrations : Uzbekistan's national holidays -- Music across the Kazakh steppe -- Shrinking of the welfare state : Central Asians' assessments of Soviet and post-Soviet governance -- Going to school in Uzbekistan -- Alphabet changes in Turkmenistan, 1904-2004 -- Travels in the margins of the state : everyday geography in the Ferghana Valley borderlands -- Divided faith : trapped between state and Islam in Uzbekistan -- Sacred sites, profane ideologies : religious pilgrimage and the Uzbek state -- Everyday negotiations of Islam in Central Asia : practicing religion in the Uyghur neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan -- Namaz, wishing trees, and vodka : the diversity of everyday religious life in Central Asia -- Christians as the main religious minority in Central Asia / Scott Levi / Adrienne Edgar / Robert L. Canfield / Morgan Y. Liu / Douglas Northrop / Marianne Kamp / Elizabeth A. Constantine / Greta Uehling / Paula A. Michaels / Meltem Sancak and Peter Finke / Russell Zanca / Laura Adams / Michael Rouland / Kelly M. McMann / Shoshana Keller / Victoria Clement / Madeleine Reeves / Eric M. McGlinchey / David M. Abramson and Elyor E. Karimov / Sean R. Roberts / David W. Montgomery / Sebastien Peyrouse

ISBN: 9780253348838 0253348838 9780253219046 0253219043

LCCN: 2006037058

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnology--Asia, Central

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia, Central--Social life and customs

LC Class. No.: DS328.2 / .E94 2007

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