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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Gender policy is known to be an important part of the nation-building processes of countries all around the world, and Kazakhstan is no exception. Overview of the history of gender in Central Asia in the pre-Soviet period ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023-07-20)Chinese migrants are widespread all over the world, but in recent years their footprints have begun to reach Central Asia, a destination mainly for ethnic minorities migrants from Xinjiang. Especially after the Belt and ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)This dissertation traces the history of national ideas in Māwarāʾ al-Nahr and Khurāsān, later known as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, from the margins. This study follows the transformations of ideas of differences ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Food is one of the most significant aspects of Korean diaspora culture in Kazakhstan and is an important element of traditions, yet little is known about the food culture of the Koreans of Kazakhstan. Previous studies ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)My interest in Amangeldy Imanov stems from reading the edited volume on The Central Asian Revolt of 1916 and attending history classes during my Master of Arts in Eurasian Studies program.1 I was particularly drawn to the ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Aqbïlek is one of the first and most innovative novels in Kazakh literature. In this novel, Aimauytov merges Kazakh oral literary genres with novel form. This research looks at the style of Aqbïlek and its continuity with ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Research surrounding the Republic of Kazakhstan foreign policy often assumes the state’s capture by or capitulation to foreign forces, which lead to further conclusions regarding the extent of Kazakhstan’s sovereignty. ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)The 1920s 30s, as it will be later described in more detail, were the times of important political and ideological changes in Kazakhstan. These changes were reflected in the dynamics of official party rhetoric on different ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)My thesis project is a combination of a comparative analysis of the two novels, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, and a social-anthropological survey of the visitors of the Museum of ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)The present thesis examines the transmission of memory and political implications of victimized identity in Azerbaijan. It focuses on the strategies of victimization that shape society’s discourse of Nagorno-Karabakh, which ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Ethnographic findings of Russian colonial representatives are the main sources for studying the Steppe inhabitants from the time of their first contact with the Russian Empire until the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Jeans are often seen as one of the most iconic symbols representing the Westernization and growing consumerism of Soviet society during late socialism. While the existing studies on the role of Western culture’s consumption ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)Contemporary heritage practices are largely framed by official discourses rooted in definitions that overemphasize materiality. This thesis project aims to explore a more nuanced way of approaching heritage through the ...
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(School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)The current work attempts to investigate the concept of heteroglossia and its sonic representation in Kazakhstani`s metal subculture. Heteroglossia is a combination of voices that we consciously and subconsciously derive ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)The Korean community of Kazakhstan had formed as a result of the initial migration from the Korean peninsula to the Russian Far East at the end of the 19th century and further forced relocation to Central Asia ordered ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)When shared ethnicity is not enough for co-ethnic migrants to adapt and integrate into the co-ethnic society, considerations of different post-migration adaptation methods and identity formation among Kazakh 'repatriates' ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)In this research, I analyze the role of batyr images in the nation-building process in contemporary Kazakhstan. In particular, I focus on the batyrs as ideological personages who previously were considered historical ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)This study aims to investigate the transformations of ethnic identity of three generations of Kazakhstani Poles and their ancestors who were deported from Ukraine to Kazakhstan in the 1930s. Deportation and Sovietization ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)Ethnographies and popular belief posit that women dominate as pilgrims in Islamic shrine pilgrimage in Kazakhstan. This thesis attempts to examine the larger phenomenon of female pilgrim majorities in Islamic shrine ...
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(Estonian Literary Museum Scholarly Press, 2021-12-30)This article presents an ethnographic study of Bosnian humour during the siege of Sarajevo. The siege of Sarajevo, which followed the collapse of Yugoslavia, lasted four years. Despite the atrocities and war crimes committed ...
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