Forum 28: What is the Role of ‘Regional Studies’ in Contemporary Anthropology? — Exploring the Case of Central Asia
From the Editorial Board
Sergei Abashin, Aida Aaly Alymbaeva, Aksana Ismailbekova, Gulnara Aytpaeva, Alima Bissenova, Kulshat Medeuova, Anna Cieślewska, Svetlana Gorshenina, Diana Ibanez-Tirado, Magnus Marsden, Tokhir Kalandarov, Natalya Kosmarskaya, Emil Nasritdinov, Boris Pйtric, Madeleine Reeves, Igor Savin, Jesko Schmoller, Tommaso Trevisani, Zulaikho Usmanova
From the Editors
Articles
Elena Borisova. Parenting at a Distance: Transnational Practices in Migrant Families from Tajikistan
Yuri Berezkin. The Spread of Folkloric Motifs as Information Exchange, or, Where East Meets West
Conspiracy Theory in Today’s Russia
Alexander A. Panchenko. Introduction: Anthropology and Conspiracy Theory
Anna Razuvalova. The Plot Device of Conspiracy in Nikolay Burlyaev’s film Lermontov and A Director’s Diary: on the ‘Ethnography of the Emotions’ of the National-Conservative Community
Alexander Panchenko. The Computer Called The Beast: Eschatology and Conspiracy Theory in Modern Religious Cultures
Jeanne Kormina. Killer Yeast: Gastronomic Conspiracy Theories and the Culture of Mistrust in Modern Russia
Sergei Shtyrkov. ‘The Fight between Ases and Devas Runs through Our Whole Existence’: The Conspirological Imaginary of North Ossetian Intellectuals and the Search for Meaning in National History
Reviews
Denis Letnyakov. Another South? A Review of Sophie Hohmann, Claire Mouradian, Silvia Serrano, Julien Thorez (eds.), Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era. London; New York: IB Tauris, 2014, 399 pp.
Guzel Yusupova. Look the World in the Face: A Review of Stephanie Cronin (ed.), Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress. London; New York: Routledge, 2014, 288 pp.
Anna Cieślewska. The Emotional World of Islam: A Review of Svetlana Peshkova, Women, Islam, and Identity, Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, 352 pp.
Alfrid Bustanov. Islam on the Territory of the Former Soviet Empire: A Review of Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Christian Noack (eds.), Allah’s Kolkhozes: Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s — 2000s). Berlin: Klaus Schwartz Verlag, 2014, 541 pp., maps, photographs, indices, bibliographies
