David W. Montgomery is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of Program Development for CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion.

• 1. Introduction: Negotiating well-being in Central Asia Visions of well-being 2. Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders 3. How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy Spaces of well-being 4. ‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan’s eastern Pamirs 5. Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village 6. Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan Cosmologies of well-being 7. Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks 8. Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan 9. Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia

David W. Montgomery is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of Program Development for CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion.

• 1. Introduction: Negotiating well-being in Central Asia Visions of well-being 2. Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders 3. How to build a better future? Kyrgyzstani development workers and the ‘knowledge transfer’ strategy Spaces of well-being 4. ‘The state starts from the family’: peace and harmony in Tajikistan’s eastern Pamirs 5. Relations made over tea: reflections on a meaningful life in a Central Asian mountain village 6. Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan Cosmologies of well-being 7. Anxiety, order and the other: well-being among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks 8. Even honey may become bitter when there is too much of it: Islam and the struggle for a balanced existence in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan 9. Discovering a sense of well-being through the revival of Islam: profiles of Kazakh imams in Western Mongolia