Azan on the Moon : Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mostowlansky, Till (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kirgisen
Moderne
Lebenswelt
Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
Civilization, Modern.
Ethnology.
Social change.
HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnologie > Tadjikistan.
Routes de montagne > Aspect social > Tadjikistan.
Ethnology > Tajikistan.
Mountain roads > Social aspects > Tajikistan.
Social change > Tajikistan > Kūḣistonī Badakhshon.
Bergbadachschan
Tadschikistan
Pamir.
Tajikistan.
Asia > Pamir Highway.
Tajikistan > Kūḣistonī Badakhshon.
Kūḣistonī Badakhshon (Tajikistan) > Social conditions.
Pamir Highway > History.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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