M. Mobin Shorish Collection: Recent submissions
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Field Notes from Central AsiaThe fall of the USSR has left the Central Asian republics like ships without rudders as far as their formal education is concerned. Various financial and ideological arrangements concerning curricula and other variables associated with the internal efficiency of schooling between Moscow and the republics came to an abrupt end. With "independence" also came problems of rebuilding the country through training of the young and the retraining of the work force. The new technology and the sciences have made the skills of many in the former USSR citizens inappropriate for utilization for economic development.
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Ethnicity and Islam in the Post Soviet Central AsiaCentral Asia is heir to many traditions. Chief among these traditions are Islamic and Sovietism. During the Islamic period a great many traditions of the people of the area such as Zoroastrianism and Buddhism gave way to Islam and the functionaries in the Soviet era destroyed a great many of the Islamic traditions and rituals. The paper is based on readings on the area and field works and tries to explain the persistence of Islamic traditions as means of self-identity and authentication in the face of the onslaught of a monolithic Soviet system.
