LEADER 04342nam 2200625 450 001 9910452903703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-01353-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001118454 035 $a(EBL)1402895 035 $a(OCoLC)862827037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000098 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11634991 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000098 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10942937 035 $a(PQKB)11243675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1402895 035 $a(OCoLC)858861831 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31908 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1402895 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767201 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL518794 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001118454 100 $a20061107d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEveryday life in Central Asia $epast and present /$fedited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (418 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34883-8 311 $a1-299-87543-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [385]-388) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 1930's; 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 327 $a7 The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930's 8 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 327 $a15 The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians' Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance 16 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 327 $a22 Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia 23 Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index 330 $aFor 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 606 $aEthnology$zAsia, Central 607 $aAsia, Central$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a958/.04 701 $aSahadeo$b Jeff$f1967-$0879795 701 $aZanca$b Russell G.$f1964-$0879796 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452903703321 996 $aEveryday life in Central Asia$91964636 997 $aUNINA