Daghestan

Tradition and Survival

Robert Chenciner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7007-0632-7 (ISBN)

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Daghestan is home to more than 30 distinct peoples, each of which has both withstood and absorbed centuries of external influence. This text offers an account of the swiftly vanishing traditional ways of life in the villages of this area, and how the Daghestanis of today are adapting to change.

Robert Chenciner

Foreword Map of villages. Introduction: survival and tradition 2. Kung-fu in the evenings: the strongman cult 3. Inventing the wheelbarrow: women and sex in the mountains 4. A way to be born 5. ... and a way to die 6. King Khosrows' dumplings: food & feasts 7. Familiar surroundings 8. ... and cosmic-domestic textiles 9. Capes, masks & costumes 10. Fighting dogs and magic beasts 11. The society of godless zealots 12. The secret garden of Botlikh 13. New nationalism for old nations 14. Afterword: Daghestan avoids violence & the Russian-Chechen War

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.7.1997
Reihe/Serie	Caucasus World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7007-0632-1 / 0700706321
ISBN-13	978-0-7007-0632-7 / 9780700706327
Zustand	Neuware