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Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries

An Anthropological Perspective

By Laëtitia Atlani-Duault

An anthropologist among aid workers. Her objective: to study that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44884-0 (Routledge)

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Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus

Post-Soviet Disorder

Edited by Moshe Gammer

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42345-8 (Routledge)

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Georgia

In the Mountains of Poetry

By Peter Nasmyth

This is the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia. It covers the country region by region, taking the form of a literary…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39669-1 (Routledge)

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A Beginners' Guide to Tajiki

By Azim Baizoyev, John Hayward

This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of the Tajiki language. It uses authentic language material to help learners as they proceed…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31598-2 (Routledge)

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Muslim Turkistan

Kazak Religion and Collective Memory

By Bruce Privratsky

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1297-7 (Routledge)

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Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan

Gender, Oral Culture and Song

By Carole Blackwell

This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1354-7 (Routledge)

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Oil and Gas in the Caucasus and Caspian

A History

By Charles van der Leeuw

The impact of oil and oil-related interests has been subject of much speculation concerning the youngest emerging geopolitical oil bloc that stretches between the Black…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1123-9 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Kazaks

Cultural and Social Perspectives

By Ingvar Svanberg

This is the first volume of field work, based on western ethnological standard, about the Kazakhs of Kazakhstan since Alfred E. Hudson's work published in…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1115-4 (Routledge)

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Storm Over the Caucasus

In the Wake of Independence

By Charles van der Leeuw

This book uses eyewitness accounts and historical records to provide a picture of the turbulent years immediately following perestroika and the independence of the Caucasian…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1116-1 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the 20th Century
By Irina Y. Morozova
To be published March 4th 2009

Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order
By John Heathershaw
To be published March 25th 2009

Illegal Post-Soviet Migration to the United States
By Saltanat Liebert
To be published April 30th 2009

Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan
By Wojciech Ostrowski
To be published June 30th 2009

Politics of Modern Central Asia
Edited by Bhavna Dave
To be published August 1st 2009

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