The Family in Central Asia : : New Perspectives / / ed. by Sophie Roche.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the family in Central Asia by bringing together new research, old theories, new and classic methods and technologies. We aim to adopt a whole range of diverse methodological approaches to investigate family-related issues in Central Asia, including th...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islamkundliche Untersuchungen , 332
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • The Family in Central Asia: New Research Perspectives
  • I The Family in Soviet and post-Soviet History
  • The Paradox in Studies of Family in Central Asia
  • Mahalla in Northern Tajikistan
  • The Family in the Kolkhoz Context
  • The Family in the Kolkhoz Context An Approach to the Apparently Contradictory Relationship between Modernity and Tradition in the Brezhnev Era
  • II Continuity and Change in Family Practice
  • Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan
  • “Better to hold on to salt than to hold on to your daughter” Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan
  • Impacts of the 1978 Communist coup d’état
  • Tajik in Content—Soviet in Form?
  • Part III. Training and Inheriting Family Management
  • The Sacred Families in Central Asia
  • Kelin in Central Asia
  • The Role of Women in Health-Seeking Strategies
  • Part IV. Children at the Heart of the Family
  • Historical Analysis of the Family and the Education of Children
  • Global Familyhood and Global Family Communication: Cases from Afghanistan
  • Kinship and Orphans: Rural Uzbeks and Loss of Parents in the 1920s and 1930s
  • V. The Family on the Move
  • A Family Affair. Sibling Hierarchy, Moral Reasoning, and Differential (Im)mobility in Rural Kyrgyzstan
  • A Network Analysis of Qipchaks in Mongol China
  • Towards Matrifocal Families? Relations in Transnational and Single Parent Families in Tajikistan
  • Part VI Methodological Explorations of the Family
  • Anthropological Genetics in Central Asia
  • Population Change and Migration in the Ferghana Region
  • Ethnographic Sketches in “The Mineralogy” of Abu-Rayhon Biruni
  • Film Review Nurbek Egen: The Empty Home (Pustoi dom), 2012
  • Glossary: Family terminology
  • Bibliography