The family in Central Asia : new perspectives / Sophie Roche (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roche, Sophie, editor.

Series:

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; 332

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Asia--Congresses.

Families.

Asia, Central--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the family in Central Asia by bringing together new research, old theories, new and classic methods and technologies. We aim to adopt a whole range of diverse methodological approaches to investigate family-related issues in Central Asia, including the following: the state-family interface in terms of state interventions into the domestic sphere, reproduction, and the status of women; family in migration and resulting changes or lack thereof in family concepts (e.g., descent) and practices (e.g., dowry, bride price); adaptations in the family to changing conditions such as nutrition and religion; and the evolution and globalisation of family forms and relationships across time and space. Through various methodologies we intend to access and study the dynamic changes that have shaped the region over several centuries. The family, in this context, opens concrete, comparative and flexible perspectives to address these questions. The book is organized into six larger sections each with three chapters. Each chapter consists of an autobiographical note that introduces the reader to the author’s disciplinary background, research interests, as well as the sources used and approaches taken in the subsequent article. The book is the result of a conference held in 2014 and organized by the research group “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. Sophie Roche (leader of the group), Swetlana Torno, Said Reza Kazemi and Sayyora Mukhamedova are core members of the group that has worked on issues of care, migration, family and demographic changes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

The Family in Central Asia: New Research Perspectives

The Paradox in Studies of Family in Central Asia

Mahalla in Northern Tajikistan

The Family in the Kolkhoz Context

The Family in the Kolkhoz Context An Approach to the Apparently Contradictory Relationship between Modernity and Tradition in the Brezhnev Era

Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

“Better to hold on to salt than to hold on to your daughter” Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Impacts of the 1978 Communist coup d’état

Tajik in Content—Soviet in Form?

The Sacred Families in Central Asia

Kelin in Central Asia

The Role of Women in Health-Seeking Strategies

Historical Analysis of the Family and the Education of Children

Global Familyhood and Global Family Communication: Cases from Afghanistan

Kinship and Orphans: Rural Uzbeks and Loss of Parents in the 1920s and 1930s

A Family Affair. Sibling Hierarchy, Moral Reasoning, and Differential (Im)mobility in Rural Kyrgyzstan

A Network Analysis of Qipchaks in Mongol China

Towards Matrifocal Families? Relations in Transnational and Single Parent Families in Tajikistan

Anthropological Genetics in Central Asia

Population Change and Migration in the Ferghana Region

Ethnographic Sketches in “The Mineralogy” of Abu-Rayhon Biruni

Film Review Nurbek Egen: The Empty Home (Pustoi dom), 2012

Glossary: Family terminology

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112209271

3112209273

OCLC:

1198931527