Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan

Offering an unflinching portrait of life in Daghestan and Chechnya and focusing on its girls and women, this book presents the north Caucasus today through the eyes of two Poles, an anthropologist and a journalist, who travelled there amid a locally rooted but newly assertive Islamic revivalism. Shadowed by Russian secret police, the authors participate in Muslim rites in villages which penalize those caught smoking or drinking, even in their own homes; spend time with polygamous families; talk to human rights and democracy activists whose names feature on hit lists; and to young people about religion, polygamy, prostitution and sex. They also track down 'Wahhabis' (known locally as 'devils') who conceal their religious affiliations for fear of persecution. In Daghestan the authors encounter two Sufi religious leaders, both of whom were later murdered, and in Grozny, young men who survived torture but were forced to commit perjury. They hang out with young women 'encouraged' by the Chechen regime to 'conduct themselves morally' for the good of the nation; accompany girls on dates; and find out from eighteen-year-old divorcé 3 why it's better to share a bed with another wife than have no husband at all.

Info autore

Iwona Kaliszewska has been researching the North Caucasus since 2004. She teaches anthropology at the University of Warsaw. She is currently a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkelely at the Institute of Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies. Maciej Falkowski is a political scientist and journalist based at the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw.

Riassunto

Fascinating ethnography of women in the Caucasus living through a period of Islamic revivalism

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maciej Falkowski, Falkowski Maciej, Iwona Kaliszewska, Kaliszewska Iwona
• Editore: Hurst Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9781849045575
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-557-5
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 363 g
• Illustrazioni: illustrations, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Chechnya