ABSTRACT
Kalimat on the wrong foot ... " The sunny Korkmaskala festival crowd of headscarfed women and girls, wearing long dresses over long trousers, screamed with laughter as the stand-up Kumyk comic did a spoof commentary on the Daghestan Olympic women's hockey match. It was impossible. It was so funny. Meanwhile, on the floor in a house in distant, mountainous Andi, barefoot women in white headscarves and red tartan shawls, sat and watched the television, where mini-skirted, deep-cleavaged singers jerked through their leggy dances at the Sopot International Song Contest. As they peered, they knitted, kneaded dough, embroidered or chopped food for dinner. Whatever were they thinking?
