A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia
by
Maria Nalivkina, Valdimir Nalivkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During...