Daghestan, tradition & survival /
Situated in the rugged mountain peaks and deep valleys of north eastern Caucasus, Daghestan is home to 32 distinct peoples. Each of these peoples has their own language yet they share a surprisingly homogeneous culture that has both withstood and absorbed centuries of external influences. Robert Che...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1997.
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Jadual Kandungan:
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- Introduction: survival and tradition
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- Kung-fu in the evenings: the strongman cult
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- Inventing the wheelbarrow: women and sex in the mountains
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- A way to be born
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- ... and a way to die
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- King Khosrows' dumplings: food & feasts
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- Familiar surroundings
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- ... and cosmic-domestic textiles
- 9.
- Capes, masks & costumes
- 10.
- Fighting dogs and magic beasts
- 11.
- The society of godless zealots
- 12.
- The secret garden of Botlikh
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- New nationalism for old nations
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- Afterword: Daghestan avoids violence & the Russian-Chechen War
- Map: Languages of Daghestan.