Ethnology 

Foreign natives: on practices of wearing of a Muslim headscarf in a non-Muslim region of Russia

Shisheliakina A.L., Bobrov I.V. (Tyumen, Russian Federation)

Using gender approach, the article describes mutually excluding standards for Muslim women who wear hijab in everyday life in one of the non-Muslim regions of Russia — Tyumen region. On the one hand, secular society imposes restrictions on wearing hijabs. On the other hand, Muslim women and Muslim community basing on religious norms insist that a woman must be «covered» when being in public. Besides, within the Muslim community it is discussed how a hijab should look, and the parties involved in this discussion stigmatize each other. In this regard, the issue of interest is to clarify what wearing a religious headscarf means for young Muslim women. What impact do hijab restrictions have on their daily lives?

Key words: Islam, a Muslim headscarf, hijab, woman, Muslim, gender, everyday practices, Tyumen region.

DOI: 10.20874/2071-0437-2017-37-2-146-154

07.06.2017

A.L. Shisheliakina

Institute of Problems of Development of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malyigina st., 86, Tyumen, 625026, Russian Federation

E-mail: shishelyakina@mail.ru

I.V. Bobrov

Malyigina st., 86, Tyumen, 625026, Russian Federation

E-mail: bobrov-tyumen@yandex.ru