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Control and Subversion makes a real contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general as well as being a specific and unique study of a very neglected area - post-Soviet Tajikistan - which is gaining increasing importance in the international arena of Central Asia.

Harris moves effortlessly from a macro-political perspective, examining Tajik resistance to Soviet rule, to the micro-politics of family relations, love and sex. Utilising the insights of Michel Foucault, Harris explores how order is produced in Tajik society by practices of surveillance to ensure the maintenance of particular norms. Women, she finds, are at once the most repressed and the most repressing community members.

Colette Harris' experience is very rare:she speaks both Russian and Tajik, and has set up a development project in Tajikistan.This book combines both an ethnographic and gender perspective with practical insights into a society about which little is known in the West. ... Read more

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This book develops a clear picture of the social dynamics of gender issues in Tajikistan. Personal stories are believable and compelling. ... Read more

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Tajikistan has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Chapters: Culture of Tajikistan, Dushanbe Tea House, Women in Tajikistan, Abolqasem Lahouti, Modern Tajik Literature, Public Holidays in Tajikistan, Mausoleum of "Mukhammad Bashoro", Khoja Mashkhad Mausoleum, Mausoleum of Amir Khamza Khasti Podshoh, Mausoleum of Hodja Nashron, Buddhistic Cloister of Ajina-Tepa, Palace of the Governor of Khulbuk, Baitudasht Iv. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Culture of Tajikistan has developed over several thousand years. Historically, Tajiks and Persians come from very similar stock with a mutual language and are related as part of the larger group of Aryan peoples. Tajik culture can be divided into two areas, Metropolitan and Kuhiston(Highland). Ancient towns such as Bukhara, Samarkand, Herat, Balkh and Nishopur Khiva are no longer part of the country. More modern centres include Dushanbe (the capital), Khudjand, Kulob, Panjikent and Istarvshan. In order to understand Tajik culture it is necessary to look back to the time of Transoxiana, (an area that lies between the Amu Darya and Sir Darya rivers and modern north-west Afghanistan), and the centres of civilization of the Nile, Mesopotamia and the banks of the Yangtze. The Tajiks' ancestors were from Scythian Indian or European tribes who were nomads of the Eurasian steppes and were among the first to settle in Central Asia about 4000 years ago. A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan.Main article: Religion in TajikistanZoroaster, the prophet of Zoroastrianism, was born in the Balkh area, (northern Afghanistan and Transoxania) and was possibly Bactrian (the partial ancestors of the Tajiks). Zoroastrianism had been adopted by Persian emperors as a state religion and was practiced during the Samanid era in central Asia until being overrun by the Arabs. The S...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=777974 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2732 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Soviet era saw the implementation of policies designed to transform the status of women. During the 1930s, the Soviet authorities launched a campaign for women's equality in Tajikistan, as they did elsewhere in Central Asia. Eventually major changes resulted from such programs, but initially they provoked intense public opposition. For example, women who appeared in public without the traditional all-enveloping veil were ostracized by society or even killed by relatives for supposedly shaming their families by what was considered unchaste behavior. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 2044 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Tajik language has had several influences although the strongest is that of a Persian variety and Uzbek Turkish. After the Bolshevik invasion and the consequent erroneous divisions into the Uzbek and Tajik republics, the Tajiks tried to create a literary language structure based on Persian. The Bolshevik's decree that made Cyrillic script the sole official alphabet and Russian the official language of the Union killed Tajikistan's linguistic efforts. With the political development of the 1990s, Perso-Arabic has been re-established and is becoming more prevalently used in literature.

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Title: Tajik literature: seventy years is longer than the Millenium.(Literatures of Central Asia)
Author: John R. Perry
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v70Issue: n3Page: p571(3)

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A comprehensive look at Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.Photographs throughout.CONTENTS:Introduction.RUSSIAN FEDERATION:The Land and the People; History; Communist Era; Stalin's Cultural Counter-Revolution of the 1930s; The Post-Stalin Era; The Brezhnev Era; Government Transition; The Gorbachëv Era; An Independent Russia is Born; The Putin Presidency; Foreign Policy; Government of the Russian Federation; Constitution of the Russian Federation; Culture; The Changing Economy.THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE INDEPENDENT STATES:Collapse of the Soviet Union; Commonwealth of Independent States; Economy under the CIS; Some Regional Problems of the CIS.WESTERN REPUBLICS:Belarus; Ukraine; Moldova.TRANSCAUCASIAN REPUBLICS:Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia.CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS:Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan. Bibliography ... Read more