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Traditionalization, or the making of a reputation: women, weddings and expenditure in Tajikistan

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  • Juliette Cleuziou

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This article aims to show how traditionalization is enforced by women in Tajikistan in the realm of marriage, focusing on the economic dimension of life cycle rituals: ritual expenditure and gift-giving. It shows that from women’s points of view, performing ceremonial competition may itself be a resource to recover their reputation, for example when a matrimonial rupture has harmed it. Focusing on single mothers, it demonstrates how practices of traditionalization performed by women can be directed at addressing gender constraints and stereotypes, such as the normative relation between marriage and femininity, and how they may also secure women’s separate sphere of competence and relative financial autonomy.

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  • Juliette Cleuziou, 2019. "Traditionalization, or the making of a reputation: women, weddings and expenditure in Tajikistan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 346-362, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:38:y:2019:i:3:p:346-362
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2019.1617247
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