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(2019) The faceless terrorist, Dordrecht, Springer.
Previous studies on Tajik kinship structures were not explicitly related to Islam, but to concepts of the clan in evolutionary theory. Throughout the Soviet period, ethnographers classified Central Asian populations using an evolutionary theory, known as pyatichlenka. From this vantage point, the "Tajiks' were seen as a patriarchal feudal society that had skipped over capitalism and moved directly to the socialist revolution of society, struggling only with certain "remnants of the past" (e.g., Islam and its practices).Parallel- and cross-cousin marriage is a challenge to theories of descent and marriage alliance. The ethnographer Kurtz used cousin-marriage to blame Muslim societies in the Middle East for reproducing terrorists. This chapter investigates kinship practices, key relationships such as the mother and her children, sibling relations, and the role extended family networks (avlod and kheshu tabor) play in preventing members to join violent groups.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03843-4_8
Full citation:
Roche, S. (2019). A cousin, a mujahid, a terrorist, in The faceless terrorist, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 259-300.
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