Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-388) and index.
Contents:
Christians as the main religious minority in Central Asia / Sebastien Peyrouse. Everyday life among the Turkmen nomads / Adrienne Edgar -- Recollections of a Hazara wedding in the 1930s ; Trouble in Birgilich / Robert L. Canfield -- Central Asian tale of two cities : locating lives and aspirations in a shifting post-Soviet cityscape / Morgan Y. Liu -- Limits of liberation : gender, revolution, and the veil in everyday life in Soviet Uzbekistan / Douglas Northrop -- Wedding Feast : living the new Uzbek life in the 1930s / Marianne Kamp -- Practical consequences of Soviet policy and ideology for gender in Central Asia and contemporary reversal / Elizabeth A. Constantine -- Dinner with Akhmet / Greta Uehling -- Ethnohistorical journey through Kazakh hospitality / Paula A. Michaels -- Konstitutsiya buzildi! : gender relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan / Meltem Sancak and Peter Finke -- Fat and all that : good eating the Uzbek way / Russell Zanca -- Public and private celebrations : Uzbekistan's national holidays / Laura Adams -- Music across the Kazakh steppe / Michael Rouland -- Shrinking of the welfare state : Central Asians' assessments of Soviet and post-Soviet governance / Kelly M. McMann -- Going to school in Uzbekistan / Shoshana Keller -- Alphabet changes in Turkmenistan, 1904-2004 / Victoria Clement -- Travels in the margins of the state : everyday geography in the Ferghana Valley borderlands / Madeleine Reeves -- Divided faith : trapped between state and Islam in Uzbekistan / Eric M. McGlinchey -- Sacred sites, profane ideologies : religious pilgrimage and the Uzbek state / David M. Abramson and Elyor E. Karimov -- Everyday negotiations of Islam in Central Asia : practicing religion in the Uyghur neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Sean R. Roberts -- Namaz, wishing trees, and vodka : the diversity of everyday religious life in Central Asia / David W. Montgomery -- Christians as the main religious minority in Central Asia / Sebastien Peyrouse.
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