Tungatarov, Yerik(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. ...
Abylkassymova, Raushan(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 ...
Kuandykova, Ainur(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 ...
Dukayev, Ali(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 ...
Kuzhakhmetova, Mira(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 ...
Saiken, Ayikailin(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' ...
Rakhymzhanov, Arlan(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 ...
Maskevich, Anastassiya(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 ...
Adzhar, Atikah(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 ...
Saduakassov, Aidar(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
The modern history often avoids researching the marginalized medieval Christian
religious institutions due to the lack of their political significance. However, the medieval
accounts present the information about their ...
Shtumpf, Alexandr(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
In 1864 a revolt by Muslim communities of Xinjiang precluded for more than a decade
Qing presence in the region. The Muslim rebels eventually made attempts at establishing new
political entities throughout Xinjiang. ...
Jampeissova, Aiganym(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
This study focuses on Kazakhstani art. It aims to comment particularly on the impact COVID 19 had on the artistic community, whose chance to earn income decreased with the introduction
of countrywide lockdown due to ...
Tileubek, Temirlan(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
In the last couple of decades, the concept of the New Soviet Man and Woman has been
drawing the attention of scholars, who examined this concept from different ideological
and institutional perspectives. However, the ...
Mikhailov, Nikolay(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
The thesis explores the status quo of the Kazakh language in terms of corpus
linguistics. The project aims to survey the currently existing corpora of the Kazakh
language and contribute to the existing body through a ...
Kulinova, Anastassiya(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
Keeping nonhuman animals in captivity has a long history, is performed in various forms, and
can be viewed from different perspectives. This work concentrates on the contemporary
zoological parks most of which represent ...
Saniyazova, Zhanar(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
Since 2012 on May 31, Kazakhstan commemorates the victims of the famine of the
1930s. Though there is a growing body of research on the famine of the 1930s in
Kazakhstan both locally and internationally, there is lack ...
Kopbayev, Nurdaulet(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
The thesis describes traditional medical practices in Kazakhstan. The research project
applies the Weberian concept of “legitimacy” to folk healing in the context of Kazakhstan. The
research project has several objectives. ...
Satova, Damesh(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
Tourist traders emerged in the early 1990s as a predominantly female response to the collapse of
state systems, job cutbacks, shortages in commodities - the chaos that enveloped newly emerging
nation-states. There is ...
Amanzholova, Gainiken(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
On May 9, 1945, the Great Patriotic War ended, and the Soviet administration began to demobilize.
This marked the beginning of a transition from war to a peaceful life. This thesis investigatesthis
process as experienced ...
Utetileuova, Togzhan(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)
This thesis explores the experience of being an ethnic returnee, an individual “returning”
to the land where their ancestors had once migrated from. Return motivations, post-return
experiences, and transnational ...