Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

Tsypylma Darieva is a senior research fellow at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin and is teaching at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research and teaching interests include anthropology of migration, diaspora and homeland, urbanity, and sacred places in Central Eurasia. She has conducted fieldwork in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Germany. Darieva is the author of Russkij Berlin: Migranten und Medien in Berlin und London (LIT, 2004), co-editor of Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks (Routledge, 2011), Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities (Campus, 2011) and of the forthcoming volume Sakralität und Mobilität in Südosteuropa und im Kaukasus.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionTsypylma Darieva, Florian Mühlfried and Kevin TuiteChapter 1. Between ‘Great’ and ‘Little' Traditions? Situating Shia Saints in Contemporary BakuTsypylma DarievaChapter 2. Women as Bread-Bakers and Ritual-Makers: Gender, Visibility and Sacred Space in Upper SvanetiNino Tserediani, Kevin Tuite and Paata BukhrashviliChapter 3. The Chain of Seven Pilgrimages in Kotaik, Armenia: Between Folk and Official ChristianityLevon Abrahamian, Zaruhi Hambardzumyan, Gayane Shagoyan, and Gohar StepanyanChapter 4. Sacred Sites in the Western Caucasus and the Black Sea Region: Typology, Hybridization, FunctioningIgor V. KuznetsovChapter 5. The Power of the Shrine and Creative Performances in Ingiloy Sacred RitualsNino Aivazishvili-GehneChapter 6. Accompanying the Souls of the Dead: The Transformation of Sacral Time and EncountersHege TojeChapter 7. Not Sharing the SacraFlorian MühlfriedChapter 8. Informal Shrines and Social Transformations: The Murids as New Religious Mediators among Yezidis in ArmeniaHamlet MelkumyanChapter 9. Sharing the Not-Sacred: Rabati and Displays of MulticulturalismSilvia SerranoIndex

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