Abstract
This article depicts the complexities of everyday life, values, and psychology in diverse mountain villages of multiethnic, multilingual Dagestan. The author begins with a historical section that outlines the significance of extended kin groups and elder councils in traditional society. Various kinds of Islam are described, including customary law (adat) and Sufi practices. The author then balances his analysis of historical legacies with extensive data on post-Soviet adaptation of ethnic-based highland "communities" (jamaat). He contributes to crucial debates concerning the radicalization of Islam in the North Caucasus by arguing for a continuity of "folk Islam" in the Soviet period and a wide range of "political Islam" in the post-Soviet period.
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