Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
Using ethnographic interviews and participant observations from the Kazakh community of Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia in June 2009, this study examines how Islamic discourses, practices, experiences, and scales of influence are negotiated in post-socialist Central Asia. To do this, local, national, and transnational dynamics of Mongolian Kazakh religious practice are considered alongside the individual-scale mediating roles of personal preference, social position, life course, power, and social networks. Islam in Bayan-Ulgii is shown to be integral to community and ethnic identity but also multifaceted, dynamic, and multi-scalar, militating against essentialist portrayals of Islam as monolithic or dichotomously split between “high” and “low” forms.
Recommended Citation
Brede, Namara, "Negotiating Everyday Islam after Socialism: A Study of the Kazakhs of Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia" (2010). Geography Honors Projects. 26.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/geography_honors/26
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Comments
This honors thesis was advised by Dr. Holly R. Barcus and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Paul Anderson.