Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity

Auteur

Robert Chenciner was a Visiting Academic at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He was an honorary member of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov is Head of the Ethnography Institute of the Dagestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation.

Texte du rabat

The book 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.

Contenu

1 Introduction - what is Dagestan?

2 Shaitans, monsters, magic places and substances

3 The Sasanian walls against the Huns

4 Trade with the Kievan Russ and the Golden Horde

5 Trade with the Moscow Tsardom XV-XVI centuries

6 Trade with Muscovy XVII-XVIII centuries

7 Under Russian governance 1801-1859

8 XIX Century historical consciousness

9 Shamil's Ethno-religious Imamate

10 Legal systems under the Russian government

11 Repression and Sovietization

12 Language policy of the USSR

13 Schools, literacy and publishing under the Tsar and Soviets

14 Poems written in Avar and Archi languages

15 Re-Islamization of public consciousness

16 Pre-Soviet and contemporary cultures

17 New traditions in urban weddings

18 Social media - the XXI century

19 Surviving covid-19 and traditional medicine

20 Traditional medicine of mountain Dagestan

21 Dagestan mountain-valley horticulture

22 About Mountain Jews

23 Meat and Fish of the Mountain Jews

24 Heroes of sport and finance

25 Monetizing the Mountains

26 A virtual tour to Archi

27 In Dagestan, as they say, everyone sings and everyone dances