Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367893965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 126 str.

Judith Beyer; Peter Finke

Opis

Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on the ‘everydayification’ (Veralltäglichung) of tradition in the region, ranging from political demonstrations, industrial workers’ gatherings, to institutions of religious education, minority communities, weddings, and the Internet.

Spis treści

Introduction: Practices of traditionalization in Central Asia Judith Beyer and Peter Finke 1. Women of protest, men of applause: political activism, gender and tradition in Kyrgyzstan Judith Beyer and Aijarkyn Kojobekova 2. Traditionalization, or the making of a reputation: women, weddings and expenditure in Tajikistan Juliette Cleuziou 3. The body global and the body traditional: a digital ethnography of Instagram and nationalism in Kazakhstan and Russia Diana T. Kudaibergenova 4. The veterans’ gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan Tommaso Trevisani 5. Appropriating and contesting ‘traditional Islam’: Central Asian students at the Russian Islamic University in Tatarstan Dominik Müller 6. Traditionalization as a response to state-induced development in rural Tibetan areas of Qinghai, PRC Jarmila Ptackova