عنوان

Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan

Number

TL48179

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jennifer Rose Webster

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Young, Glennys J.; Walker, Joel T.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Washington

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

212

Text of Note

Committee members: Campbell, Elena

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-67951-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of Washington

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation explores the complex relationship that people have with shrines in southern Kyrgyzstan from the 1950s to the present. In particular, I look at how people, especially women, identify themselves as Muslims and how their religious beliefs and practices associated with shrines and pilgrimage have evolved in response to political, social, and cultural influences in the dynamic region of Central Asia. During both the Soviet and post- Soviet eras, there has been ongoing change in how different members of Kyrgyz society have sought to demarcate Islam. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines ethnographic and historic methodologies, I examine these contested negotiations and definitions of religious identities. The integration of a diverse range of sources-interviews, observations, administrative reports, newspaper articles, travel accounts, legends, and photographs-brings to light both individual and group perceptions of the central role of shrines to Islam as it is practiced in Kyrgyzstan.

Middle Eastern history; Womens studies; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Central asia;Islam;Kyrgyz;Pilgrimage;Shrine;Women

Lee, Hanny

Young, Glennys J.; Walker, Joel T.

Subdivision

History

University of Washington

Call Number

1675041051; 3688984

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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