%0 Journal Article %1 kandiyoti_2004a %A Kandiyoti, D. %A Azimova, N. %D 2004 %J Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute %K social_network religion ritual Uzbek Uzbekistan mahalla ethnology %N 2 %P 327--349 %T The communal and the sacred: women's worlds of ritual in Uzbekistan %V 10 %X This article analyses women’s participation in life-cycle, religious, and propitiatory rituals in Uzbekistan against the background of the ‘politicization’ of custom under the Soviet regime and fluctuations in official policies towards Islam since the post-Soviet period. Despite changes in official discourse, the resilience of women’s rituals may be explained in terms of their embeddedness in local notions of communal participation and their role in the day-to-day reproduction of communal life. In the post-Soviet period, ritual has become a site both for the assertion of authentic Uzbek identity and for the display of growing disparities in wealth and status through the medium of consumption, leading to propaganda campaigns against ostentation. Although the thinking behind these initiatives is very different from that of Soviet modernizers, they, too, place ritual life at the centre of Uzbek sociality and target women as the custodians of local custom.

@article{kandiyoti_2004a, abstract = {This article analyses women’s participation in life-cycle, religious, and propitiatory rituals in Uzbekistan against the background of the ‘politicization’ of custom under the Soviet regime and fluctuations in official policies towards Islam since the post-Soviet period. Despite changes in official discourse, the resilience of women’s rituals may be explained in terms of their embeddedness in local notions of communal participation and their role in the day-to-day reproduction of communal life. In the post-Soviet period, ritual has become a site both for the assertion of authentic Uzbek identity and for the display of growing disparities in wealth and status through the medium of consumption, leading to propaganda campaigns against ostentation. Although the thinking behind these initiatives is very different from that of Soviet modernizers, they, too, place ritual life at the centre of Uzbek sociality and target women as the custodians of local custom.}, added-at = {2007-02-01T04:33:54.000+0100}, author = {Kandiyoti, D. and Azimova, N.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2813f6646c7b3e67e3bbae247c6222b21/iblis}, interhash = {0d10c5075d9806fe052cdf896ef01e02}, intrahash = {813f6646c7b3e67e3bbae247c6222b21}, journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, keywords = {social_network religion ritual Uzbek Uzbekistan mahalla ethnology}, language = {english}, number = 2, pages = {327--349}, timestamp = {2007-02-01T04:33:54.000+0100}, title = {The communal and the sacred: women's worlds of ritual in Uzbekistan}, volume = 10, year = 2004 }