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The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan (Central Eurasia in Context) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 19: Central Eurasia in Context

Beyer, Judith

 
9780822964209: The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan (Central Eurasia in Context)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822964201 ISBN 13: 9780822964209
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how Kyrgyz in Talas province negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation is shown to be a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt in order to meet the challenges of contemporary political, legal, economic, and religious environments. Officially, codified state law should take precedence when it comes to dispute resolution, yet the unwritten laws of salt and the increasing importance of Islamic law provide the standards for ordering everyday life. As Beyer further demonstrates, interpretations of both Islamic and state law are also intrinsically linked to salt. By interweaving case studies on kinship, legal negotiations, festive events, mourning rituals, and political and business dealings, Beyer shows how salt is the binding element in rural Kyrgyz social life and how it is used to explain and negotiate moral behavior and to postulate communal identity. In this way, salt provides a time-tested, sustainable source of authentication that defies changes in government and the shifting tides of religious movements.

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Judith Beyer is professor of anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She is coauthor of Kirgistan: A Photoethnography of Talas and coeditor of Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822964201
ISBN 13 
9780822964209
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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