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Subject(s)

• Dagestan (Russia)—History [Browse]
• Dagestan (Russia)—Ethnic relations [Browse]
• Dagestan (Russia)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Ethnology—Russia (Federation)—Dagestan [Browse]

Author

• Magomedkhanov, Magomedkhan, 1951- [Browse]

Series

Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 109. [More in this series]

Summary note

"Dagestan: History, Ethnography, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan's rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people. Chapters feature the new age of social media, urban weddings, modern and traditional medicine, innovative food cultivation, the little-known history of Mountain Jews during the Soviet period, flourishing heroes of sport and finance, emerging opportunities in ethno-tourism and a recent Dagestani music revival. In doing so, the authors examine the large number of different ethnic groups in Dagestan, their languages and traditions, and assess how the people of Dagestan are coping and thriving despite the changes brought about by globalisation, new technology and the modern world: through which swirls an increasing sense of identity in an indigenous multi-ethnic society"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction, what is Dagestan?
• Shaitans, monsters, magic places and substances
• The Sasanian walls against the Huns
• Trade with the Kievan Russ and the Golden Horde
• Trade with the Moscow Tsardom XV-XVI centuries
• Trade with Muscovy XVII-XVIII centuries
• Under Russian governance 1801-1859
• XIX century historical consciousness
• Shamil's ethno-religious imamate
• Legal systems under the Russian government
• Repression and Sovietization
• Language policy of the USSR
• Schools, literacy and publishing under the Tsar and Soviets
• Poems written in Avar and Archi languages
• Re-Islamization of public consciousness
• Pre-Soviet and contemporary cultures
• New traditions in urban weddings
• Social media, the XXI century
• Surviving covid-19 and traditional medicine
• Traditional medicine of mountain Dagestan
• Dagestan mountain-valley horticulture
• About Mountain Jews
• Meat and fish of the Mountain Jews
• Heroes of sport and finance
• Monetizing the Mountains
• A virtual tour to Archi
• In Dagestan, as they say, everyone sings and everyone dances.

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ISBN

• 9781032483429 (hardcover)
• 1032483423 (hardcover)
• 9781032483450 (paperback)
• 1032483458 (paperback)

LCCN

2023000417

OCLC

1356724272

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