Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity

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Dagestan – History, Culture, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan’s rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people. Chapters feature the new age of social media, urban weddings, modern and traditional medicine, innovative food cultivation, the little-known history of Mountain Jews during the Soviet period, flourishing heroes of sport and finance, emerging opportunities in ethno-tourism and a recent Dagestani music revival. In doing so, the authors examine the large number of different ethnic groups in Dagestan, their languages and traditions, and assess how the people of Dagestan are coping and thriving despite the changes brought about by globalisation, new technology and the modern world: through which swirls an increasing sense of identity in an indigenous multi-ethnic society. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of maps List of figures Preface 1 Introduction – what is Dagestan? 2 Shaitans, monsters, magic places and substances 3 The Sasanian walls against the Huns 4 Trade with the Kievan Russ and the Golden Horde 5 Trade with the Moscow Tsardom XV–XVI centuries 6 Trade with Muscovy XVII–XVIII centuries 7 Under Russian governance 1801–1859 8 XIX Century historical consciousness 9 Shamil’s Ethno-religious Imamate 10 Legal systems under the Russian government 11 Repression and Sovietization 12 Language policy of the USSR 13 Schools, literacy and publishing under the Tsar and Soviets 14 Poems written in Avar and Archi languages 15 Re-Islamization of public consciousness 16 Pre-Soviet and contemporary cultures 17 New traditions in urban weddings 18 Social media – the XXI century 19 Surviving covid and traditional medicine 20 Traditional medicine of mountain Dagestan 21 Dagestan mountain-valley horticulture 22 About Mountain Jews 23 Meat and Fish of the Mountain Jews 24 Heroes of sport and finance 25 Monetizing the Mountains 26 A virtual tour to Archi 27 In Dagestan, as they say, everyone sings and everyone dances Index