The Sacred Families in Central Asia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. The Family in Central Asia: New Research Perspectives 7
4. I The Family in Soviet and post-Soviet History
5. The Paradox in Studies of Family in Central Asia 39
6. Mahalla in Northern Tajikistan 53
7. The Family in the Kolkhoz Context 84
8. The Family in the Kolkhoz Context An Approach to the Apparently Contradictory Relationship between Modernity and Tradition in the Brezhnev Era 86
9. II Continuity and Change in Family Practice
10. Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan 107
11. “Better to hold on to salt than to hold on to your daughter” Marriage Strategy in the Aftermath of the Conflict in Osh, Kyrgyzstan 110
12. Impacts of the 1978 Communist coup d’état 126
13. Tajik in Content—Soviet in Form? 141
14. Part III. Training and Inheriting Family Management
15. The Sacred Families in Central Asia 161
16. Kelin in Central Asia 171
17. The Role of Women in Health-Seeking Strategies 184
18. Part IV. Children at the Heart of the Family
19. Historical Analysis of the Family and the Education of Children 205
20. Global Familyhood and Global Family Communication: Cases from Afghanistan 217
21. Kinship and Orphans: Rural Uzbeks and Loss of Parents in the 1920s and 1930s 243
22. V. The Family on the Move
23. A Family Affair. Sibling Hierarchy, Moral Reasoning, and Differential (Im)mobility in Rural Kyrgyzstan 269
24. A Network Analysis of Qipchaks in Mongol China 289
25. Towards Matrifocal Families? Relations in Transnational and Single Parent Families in Tajikistan 309
26. Part VI Methodological Explorations of the Family
27. Anthropological Genetics in Central Asia 337
28. Population Change and Migration in the Ferghana Region 359
29. Ethnographic Sketches in “The Mineralogy” of Abu-Rayhon Biruni 378
30. Film Review Nurbek Egen: The Empty Home (Pustoi dom), 2012 385
31. Glossary: Family terminology 389
32. Bibliography 391