Sahadeo, Jeff and Russell Zanca, eds. Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Relevant sections in this edited book include: Communities (5-A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities: Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape (Liu)); Gender (6-The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan (Northrop)); Performance and Encounter (13-Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays (Adams)); Religion (19-Divided Faith: Trapped Between State and Islam in Uzbekistan (McGlinchey); 20-Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State (Abramson & Karimov); 21-Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in The Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Roberts); 22-Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia (Montgomery)).  Descriptors: 2000s, anthropology, book, edited, political science, S, Z