Contents
Introduction: Central Asia and Everyday Life
Part One: Background
Introduction
1.Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History Scott Levi
Part Two: Communities
Introduction
2. Everyday Life among the Turkmen Nomads Adrienne Edgar
3. Recollections of a Hazara Wedding in the 1930s Robert
Canfield
4. Trouble in Birglich Robert Canfield
5. A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities:Locating Lives and
Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape Morgan Y. Liu
Part Three: Gender
Introduction
6. The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in
Everyday Life in Soviet
Uzbekistan Douglas Northrop
7. The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s
Marianne Kamp
8. Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender
in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal Elizabeth Constantine
9. Dinner with Akhmet Greta Uehling
Part Four: Performance and Encounters
Introduction
10. An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality Paula A.
Michaels
11. Konstitutsiya Buzildi: Gender Relations in Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan Peter Finke and Meltem Sancak
12. Fat and All That: Good Eating the Uzbek Way Russell Zanca
13. Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays
Laura Adams
14. Music Across the Kazakh Steppe Michael Rouland
Part Five: Nation, State, and Society in the Everyday
Introduction
15. The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians'Assessments
of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance Kelly McMann
16. Going to School in Uzbekistan Shoshana Keller
17. Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan: State, Society, and the
Everyday, 1904-2004 Victoria Clement
18. Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the
Ferghana Valley Borderlands Madeleine Reeves
Part Six: Religion
Introduction
19. Divided Faith: Trapped between State and Islam in Uzbekistan
Eric McGlinchey
20. Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the
Uzbek State David Abramson and Elyor Karimov
21. Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing
Religion in the Uyghur
Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan Sean
Roberts
22. Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday
Religious Life in Central Asia David Montgomery
23. Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia
Sebastien Peyrouse
Index
Contributors
A lively reader on the peoples and cultures of Central Asia
Jeff Sahadeo is Assistant Professor, Institute of European and
Russian Studies and Department of Political Science, Carleton
University, Ottawa. He is author of Russian Colonial Society in
Tashkent, 1865–1923 (IUP, 2006).
Russell Zanca is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
Northeastern Illinois University. He is author of The Big Cotton
Collective: Uzbeks after Socialism.
"This rich volume should . . . be commended for its comprehensible
style making it accessible to nonspecialists in Central Asian
societies and to virtually anyone interested in the region."—Ab
Imperio
"Sahadeo and Zanca have collected a large range of essays written
in a clear and accessible style well suited as a textbook for
undergraduate teaching or anyone interested in learning about the
region."—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"[A]n excellent and compelling collection of essays . . . . [T]his
book is a valuable addition to our understanding of not only a
region heavily influenced by the Russian/Soviet colonial legacy,
but also of the ways in which the everyday confronts often
competing notions of identity. Vol. 9.3 Winter 2008"—Robert O.
Krikorian, George Washington University
"[A]n excellent study . . . . Readers will be attracted to the
richness of the collected stories about the social and cultural
diversity of Central Asia. The book provides a sympathetic and
insightful analysis of Central Asian societies that face common
challenges in their transition to a better life. In sum, this
innovative work is a significant contribution to various fields in
Central Asian studies.Vol. 53.1 Spring 2009"—Anara Tabyshalieva,
Institute for Regional Studies, Kyrgyzstan
"[This] book . . . offers to the curious reader a better
understanding of Central Asian people, their histories, and
everyday lives—a diversity of people who otherwise may have been
conceptualized as a grey and anonymous mass, or, worse yet, as mere
numbers.October 2008"—Irene Hilgers, H-Soyuz
"Part of a series of books on everyday life in various parts of the
world, this volume offers essays on the different ways that Central
Asians lead their daily lives and navigate shifting historical,
political, and economic trends in past and present times. . . .
Many of the selections concern the difficult transitions from
Soviet rule to independent statehood, restrictions on political and
social activity, widening gaps between the rich and the poor, and
new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression. The
essays on the varying beliefs and practices of Muslims across this
wide region are especially informative. The volume contains
illustrations and a listing of the contributors' backgrounds and
qualifications. . . . Recommended."—Choice
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