Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia write by Judith Beyer. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is ‘everyday-ified’ in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers’ gatherings to institutions of religious education, minority communities, weddings, and the Internet. In this volume we regard tradition as a practice that needs to be explored in its institutional and interactional context at a particular time, rather than as a reliable guide to the past: tradition can only be judged from the present; it is an interpretative concept, not a descriptive one. While the scholarly debate has so far centered on what tradition entails and what it does not, including the question of invention and ownership, less attention has been devoted to investigating how tradition is enacted, enforced, or motivated – in short, how it ‘gets done.’ In Central Asia, practices of traditionalization are closely related to the transformation of the socialist order and the emergence of highly stratified societies. This volume asks: When does tradition emerge as a line of argumentation, who are the actors invoking it and how is it being (materially) manifested? Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia will be of great interest to scholars of Central Asia, Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Sociology. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics write by Rafis Abazov. This book was released on 2006-12-30. Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.
Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics write by Rafis Abazov. This book was released on 2007. Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of Contents: Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Chronology Introduction: Land, People, and History Folklore and Literature Media and Cinema Performing Arts Visual Arts Architecture Gender, Courtship, and Marriage Festivals, Fun, and Leisure Glossary Selected Bibliography Index.
Everyday Islam
Everyday Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Islam write by Sergei P. Poliakov. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Everyday Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble spots. Why then the apparent political quiet? This book argues that this perception is, in itself, a reflection of our ignorance of the region. Instead, argues the author, Islamic traditionalism has not only survived but has flourished and is resurgent in Central Asia. This book includes chapters on marital customs, the care of children, communal decision making, social prestige and values, and the "second" economy in Central Asia. Poliakov demonstrates the resilience of an "un-Soviet" way of life which is supported by underground institutions, fostered by "unofficial" clergy, and protected by the infiltration and subordination of government and party organs.
Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia
Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia write by Elena Paskaleva. This book was released on 2023. Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries presents new research in the field of Central Asian Studies, focusing on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in Central Asia and Afghanistan.
