Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity

Robert Chenciner was a Visiting Academic at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He was an honorary member of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov is Head of the Ethnography Institute of the Dagestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation.

• 1 Introduction – what is Dagestan? 2 Shaitans, monsters, magic places and substances 3 The Sasanian walls against the Huns 4 Trade with the Kievan Russ and the Golden Horde 5 Trade with the Moscow Tsardom XV-XVI centuries 6 Trade with Muscovy XVII-XVIII centuries 7 Under Russian governance 1801-1859 8 XIX Century historical consciousness 9 Shamil’s Ethno-religious Imamate 10 Legal systems under the Russian government 11 Repression and Sovietization 12 Language policy of the USSR 13 Schools, literacy and publishing under the Tsar and Soviets 14 Poems written in Avar and Archi languages 15 Re-Islamization of public consciousness 16 Pre-Soviet and contemporary cultures 17 New traditions in urban weddings 18 Social media – the XXI century 19 Surviving covid-19 and traditional medicine 20 Traditional medicine of mountain Dagestan 21 Dagestan mountain-valley horticulture 22 About Mountain Jews 23 Meat and Fish of the Mountain Jews 24 Heroes of sport and finance 25 Monetizing the Mountains 26 A virtual tour to Archi 27 In Dagestan, as they say, everyone sings and everyone dances