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What Can Golden Horde Fabrics Tell Us About Histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine?

  • September 23, 2022
Tatiana Krupa, a Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, and restorer, has extensive experience studying fragments of fabrics that date back to the Golden Horde era. She has done work on fabrics that…
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Women, Kinship, and Property in Central Asia

  • June 16, 2022
Author Aksana Ismailbekova Aksana Ismailbekova is a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum-Moderner Orient (ZMO). Ismailbekova completed her PhD dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in…
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  • 11 min
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Rural Women in Kyrgyzstan: “Ayalzattyn tagdyry: mezgil kүүsүndө” (Women’s Fates Don’t Choose Times). An Interview with Cholpon Koichumanova

  • May 6, 2022
For the last few years, Professor Cholpon Koichumanova has been working on a project studying the role and place of women in modern Kyrgyzstan. The project has been implemented with…
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Social Mobilization in the Absence of Infrastructure and Services on the Urban Margins: Toward “Societal Infrastructures”

  • November 15, 2021
How do communities deal with the decay, failure or complete absence of infrastructure? In the fourth decade after the collapse of the Soviet and other Socialist states, this question is…
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  • 7 min
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How the Soviet State’s Promises of Water Were First Fulfilled and then Failed

  • October 19, 2021
The Soviet state invested heavily in water infrastructure in arid Central Asia. These investments produced transformations with significant social impact. They also created memories that many anthropological studies have tried…
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    • 12.09.22
    • 16 min
  • What Can Golden Horde Fabrics Tell Us About Histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine?
    • 23.09.22
    • 10 min
  • Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women
    • 19.10.22
    • 32 min
  • Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager
    • 04.11.22
    • 13 min
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“Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat”. An Interview with Robert Spengler

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Law and Custom in Central Asia: An Interview with Judith Beyer

  • July 24, 2020
Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer specializes in political and legal anthropology. She conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan where she studied the practices of retraditionalization – how the concept of traditions…
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  • 17 min
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Panjikent, the Central Asian Pompeii. An Interview with Pavel Lurje

  • May 7, 2020
Interview with Pavel Lurje Head of the Sector of Central Asia, Caucasus and Crimea, Senior Research Fellow of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage Museum, head of the Panjikent Expedition.Dr.…
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  • 7 min
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The Image of the Snow Leopard in the Archaeological Records of Kazakhstan and its Instrumentalization in Modern-Day Political Agendas

  • April 24, 2020
This article examines the connection between how archaeological remains were excavated in the past to how such remains are dealt with in present day Kazakhstan. Special attention is given to…
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Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin. An Interview with an Author

  • March 10, 2020
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the experiences of Kazakh and Kyrgyz nomads in the NEP (New…
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  • ArtChaeology and the Destruction of Ideologies: An Interview with Vyacheslav Akhunov
    • 12.09.22
    • 16 min
  • What Can Golden Horde Fabrics Tell Us About Histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine?
    • 23.09.22
    • 10 min
  • Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women
    • 19.10.22
    • 32 min
  • Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager
    • 04.11.22
    • 13 min
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  • 9 min
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The Mystery of Kyrk-Kyz: From 40 Women-Warriors to the Warriors of Light

  • January 16, 2020
A mysterious castle in Uzbekistan’s Surhandarya bears the name of Kyrk-Kyz, meaning “40 girls.” Was this a sanctuary of legendary women-warriors, or was it home to a group of Sufi…
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  • 6 min
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Humans of the Polygon: Travel Notes from the Land of Abai. Karaul, Znamenka (Kokentau), Sarzhal

  • October 8, 2019
“We are scared for the future of our kids.”A family in KaraulThe lake created in 1963 on the Polygon as a result of an explosion that used 20 tons of…
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  • 11 min
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Trilingual Education in Kazakhstan: What to Expect

  • May 24, 2019
While the only existing studies consider trilingualism in Kazakhstan in general, this research aims to identify possible risks and prospects for the implementation of the program of trilingualism at regional…
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