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For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Central Asia and Everyday Life
Part 1: Background
Introduction
1 Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History
Part 2: Communities
Introduction
2 Everyday Life among the Turkmen Nomads
3 Recollections of a Hazara Wedding in the 1930s
4 Trouble in Birgilich
5 A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities: Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape
Part 3: Gender
Introduction
6 The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan
7 The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s
8 Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal
9 Dinner with Akhmet
Part 4: Performance and Encounters
Introduction
10 An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality
11 Konstitutsiya buzildi! Gender Relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
12 Fat and All That: Good Eating the Uzbek Way
13 Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays
14 Music across the Kazakh Steppe
Part 5: Nation, State, and Society in the Everyday
Introduction
15 The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians' Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance
16 Going to School in Uzbekistan
17 Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan, 1904–2004
18 Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands
Part 6: Religion
Introduction
19 Divided Faith: Trapped between State and Islam in Uzbekistan
20 Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State
21 Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in the Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan
22 Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia
23 Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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