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Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan

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This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres of social life: leisure, education, life-cycle rites and religiosity. Hisor’s flexibility allows it to materialize Tajikistan’s governing ideology as one local project of modernity. This article discusses three contexts in which visitors experience Hisor as heritage: tourist visits to the ‘Old Madrassa’ museum, wedding photographs in front of the fortress walls and pilgrimages to the shrine of Makhdumi Azam. The heritage practices and discourses associated with Hisor offer a complex case study of how the temporal ambivalence of heritage operates on the ground in Central Asia and suggest some of heritage’s utility as a social practice for instantiating cultural memory.

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  • Benjamin Gatling, 2024. "Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(4), pages 449-467, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:43:y:2024:i:4:p:449-467
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2024.2339381
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