Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present

Abstract

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