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Everyday Life in Central Asia, Past and Present

Everyday Life in Central Asia, Past and Present

by Jeff Sahadeo (Editor)

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 401 PAGES

Dozens of scholars and ethnographers contributed to this lively reader on the peoples, cultures and customs across Central Asia. With an introduction on Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian history and chapters on Turkman nomads, a Hazara wedding, Uzbek eating, Kazakh music, travel in the Ferghana Valley, diversity of religious life and many other topics.  (CAS148, $24.95)


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