Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

This book demonstrates the relevance, rigor, and creativity of interpretive research methodologies for the social and human sciences. The book situates methods questions within the context of broader methodological questions--specifically, the character of social realities and their "know-ability." Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer an inside, applied perspective on how research topics, evidence, and methods intertwine to produce knowledge in the social sciences.

Interpretation and Method : Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Roy A. Rappaport. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.536 pp.

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

The following bibliography is conceived as a selection of international literature on food as heritage and as a marker of identity within the huge amount of works recently produced on the topic of food. The bibliography has been produced within the “Food as heritage” project, performed at University of Bologna and coordinated by Ilaria Porciani, with a team composed by Massimo Montanari, Paolo Capuzzo, Raffaele Laudani and Marica Tolomelli. “Food as heritage” is part of a wider projec...

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Bibliography “Food as Heritage”

Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

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

Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands

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"Take! Take! Take!" Host-Guest Relations and All that Food: Uzbek Hospitality Past and Present

Everyday Life in Central Asia

The debate about religion in Central Asia, and specifically Uzbekistan, revolves either around the need to combat extremism as terrorism or the necessity for the state to stop oppressing ordinary believers in fear of a religious takeover of the society. This paper shall demonstrate that neither of these hypothetical axes is necessarily bad or wrong, but they leave out crucial factors explaining the rise in religious behavior and practice in Uzbekistan today. Using ethnography, my discussion will show how religious movements in Uzbekistan can be seen as part youth rebellion and part opposition to the current monolithic Uzbek political system. The paper will demonstrate that religion in Central Asia operates as a force reaching beyond its politicization to the social fabric of daily life. It will highlight the legacy of Central Asian Islam, especially the Islam of the various schools of thought that characterize Uzbekistan's cities as well as the population‐dense Ferghana Valley. In concluding, I will argue...

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Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands

"Take! Take! Take!" Host-Guest Relations and All that Food: Uzbek Hospitality Past and Present

Everyday Life in Central Asia

‘Explaining’ Islam in Central Asia: an anthropological approach for Uzbekistan