Abstract
This study analyzes the life histories of beggars of different ethnic groups in Tashkent, Post-Soviet Uzbekistan of Central Asian. First, I explain the historical background of Tashkent and its today's socioecomoic situation. And I intend to reveral the change of meaning of being beggars after the religious revival of Islam by the independence from Soviet Union. To do something for others involving beggars as sadaqa has got to contain some connotation to be good, different from having been bad because of laziness of not working in the Soviet days. Lastly, the following points will be presented through the analysis of their life histories. (1) Subjective construction of creation of social-cultural reality by the beggars. (2) The meanings of living in Tashkent metropolitan society as the beggars. (3) Urbanity of Post-Soviet Tashkent. These findings show that there is a variety of possible ways of living in human societies. And I try to make clear the characteristics of urban attraction which Post-Soviet Tashkent contains at the rolling times in Uzbekistan by analyzing subjective realities of, for and by beggars.
