Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan: Gender, Oral Culture and Song

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Part I The Background
Chapter 1 The Genesis of the Project
Chapter 2 Turkmenistan
Chapter 3 The Folk Songs of Turkmen Women
Part II The Culture and the Women
Chapter 4 Religion and Belief Patterns
Chapter 5 Family Relationships
Chapter 6 Rites of Passage
Chapter 7 Turkmen Women
Part III The Songs
Chapter 8 An Introduction to the Songs
Chapter 9 Laeleler (girls’ songs)
Chapter 10 Toy Aydymlary (wedding songs)
Chapter 11 Monjukatdylar (fortune-telling songs)
Chapter 12 Huewdueler (lullabies)
Chapter 13 Agylar (lamentations)

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This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs.

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Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan makes an important contribution to the growing body of English-language studies on Central Asia ... a valuable resource for historians, anthropologists and sociologists working on Turkmenistan, or more generally for scholars working on gender identity and performance

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