P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Muhiddinov, Ikromiddin

Tajik ethnographer Ikromiddin Muhiddinov was born into a farming

family of the village of Tajik-2 of Kommunist on February 6, 1933.

Muhiddinov graduated from Qurghonteppa Pedagogical Institute in

1952 and from the Tajikistan State University in 1957. From 1957 to

1959, he was an intern and a Junior Scientific Worker. From 1959 to

1986, he was a post-graduate student, and later, a Scientific Worker at

the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate

degree in history in 1985. In 1986, he became the Head of the

Ethnography Department of the same institution. Muhiddinov's research

deals with public occupations (farming, gardening, irrigation) and civic

life conditions (housing, clothes, food). He also deals with family

affairs, and with ancient customs and their reflection on modern

socialist society.

Muhiddinov's contributions include Zemledelie pamirskikh tadzhikov

Vakhana i Ishkoshima v XIX-nachale XX vv. (The Agriculture of the

Pamiri Farmers in Wakhan and Ishkashim, 1975), Osobennosti

Traditsionnogo zemli-delcheskogo khozistva pripamirskikh narodnostei

v XIX-nakh XX v. (Traditional Peculiarities of Pamir Farming

Communities from the 19

th

 to the Beginning of the 20

th

 Centuries,

Moscow, 1984), and Obriadi i obichai pripamirskikh narodnostei,

sviazannie s tsiklom sel'sko-khozaistvennikh rabot (Traditions and

Rituals of the Peoples of Pamir that Relate to Places of Worship,

Moscow, 1986).

Muhiddinov was decorated with the Red Banner of Courage.

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