Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

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A lively reader on the peoples and cultures of Central Asia Cover 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 1930s 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 7 The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s 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 15 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 22 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