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Azan on the moon : entangling modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway /

"Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with A...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mostowlansky, Till (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Collection:Central Eurasia in context.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue : the moon and the highway
  • Introduction : traveling into thin air
  • Part I. Modern Place: chapter 1. Modernity and the road ; chapter 2. Making Murghab
  • Part II. Sites of Engagement: chapter 3. Nasha-Vasha : ours and yours ; chapter 4. Muslims on the roof of the world ; chapter 5. The golden gate of Tajikistan
  • Epilogue.