Life in a Muslim Uzbek Village Cotton Farming after Communism CSCA

Name: Life in a Muslim Uzbek Village Cotton Farming after Communism CSCA
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ISBN: 9780495092810

ISBN-10: 0495092819

ISBN-13: 9780495092810

Edition: 2011

Authors: Russell Zanca

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LIFE IN A MUSLIM UZBEK VILLAGE: COTTON FARMING AFTER COMMUNISM aims to 'identify and explain aspects of Uzbek cultural life in a farming village on a 'kolkhoz' (collective farm) that account for both cultural patterns and culture change.This case study depicts the cultural changes and continuities that have occurred as a result of Uzbekistan's recent political independence from the Soviet Union. It describes, from the author's own experience and understanding of Uzbek rural life, how the production and global exportation of cotton has brought new challenges and opportunities to contemporary Uzbek citizens.Students will see how vital cotton is to the modern Uzbek way of life as a means…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wadsworth
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jeff Sahadeo is Assistant Professor, Institute of European and Russian Studies and Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa. He is author of Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865--1923 (IUP, 2006).Russell Zanca is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University. He is author of The Big Cotton Collective: Uzbeks after Socialism.



Foreword


Preface


Introduction



Just Getting from Here to There in Uzbekistan



Historical Connections and Today's Kolkhoz



The Kolkhoz as Plantation



Cuisine, Celebrations and Ceremonies



Running on Empty: Surviving on the Kolkhoz



Uzbekistan's Cotton, Home Economics, and the Larger World


Conclusion


Glossary


References


Index