Identity, history and trans-nationality in Central Asia : the mountain communities of Pamir / edited by Dagikhudo Dagiev and Carole Faucher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dagiev, Dagikhudo, editor.

Faucher, Carole, 1956- editor.

Series:

Central Asian studies series ; 33.

Central Asian studies series ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pamir--History.

Pamir.

Pamir--Civilization.

Civilization.

Asia--Pamir.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 299 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

1. Introduction: locating Pamiri communities in Central Asia / Carole Faucher and Dagikhudo Dagiev

Part 1. Identity Formation, Borders and Political Transformations: 2. Geography, ethnicity and cultural heritage in interplay in the context of the Tajik Pamiri identity / Sunatullo Jonboboev ; 3. Pamiri ethnic identity and its re-emergence in post-Soviet Tajikistan / Dagikhudo Dagiev ; 4. The Wakhi language: marginhalisation and endangerment / Sherali Gulomaliev ; 5. The Tajiks of China: identity in the age of transition / Amier Saidula

Part 2. Archaeology, Myths, Intellectual and Cultural Heritage: 6. A Badakhshani origin for Zoroaster / Yusufsho Yaqubov and Dagikhudo Dagiev ; 7. The Silk Road castles and temples: ancient Wakhan in legends and history / Abdulmamad Iloliev ; 8. Nasir-i Khusraw's intellectual contribution: the meaning of pleasure and pain in his philosophy / Ghulam Abbas Hunzai ; 10. Religious identity in the Pamirs: the institutionalisation of the Ismāʻīlī Daʻwa in Shughnān / Daniel Beben ; 10. Forgotten figures of Badakhshan: Sayyid Munir al-Din Badakhshani and Sayyid Haydar Shah Mubarakshahzada / Muzaffar Zoolshoev

Part 3. Social Cohesion, Interactions and Globalization: 11. Blessed people in a barren land: the Bartangi and their success catalyser Barakat / Stefanie Kicherer ; 12. Promoting peace and pluralism in the rural, mountainous region of Chitral, Pakistan / Mir Afzal Tajik, Ali Nawab and Abdul Wali Khan ; 13. A "shift" in values: mother's educational role in the Gorno-Badakhshan Region / Nazira Sodatsayrova ; 14. Project identity: the discursive formation of Pamiri identity in the age of the internet / Aslisho Qurboniev ; 15. Religious education and self-identification among Tajik Pamiri youth / Carole Faucher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815357551

0815357559

OCLC:

1052903517

Publisher Number:

40028606750