Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway

by Till Mostowlansky

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by Soviet modernization and development, and ultimately a sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964430
• ISBN13: 9780822964438
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.7"