Books

Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway

Author: MOSTOWLANSKY Till
Publication Date: Apr / 2017
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people’s lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state along the Pamir Highway, Mostowlansky shows how conceptualizations of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan.