This dissertation is focused on the revival of small-scale mobile pastoralism on the part of village households in rural south Kazakhstan. The research consisted of extended ethnographic fieldwork in a village near the southern city of Taraz, together with material gathered from…
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This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these identities interacted to for…
Bu çalışmada, Kazakistan tarihi ve Kostüm tarihinin ana hatlarıyla Kazakistan bölgesinde yaşamış olan toplulukların ve devletlerin günümüze kadar gelmiş olan giysi buluntuları ve verileri kısaca elealınmıştır. Kazakların kültürü, yaşamı, inançları ve kutladıkları bayramları anla…
Located in the north of Kazakhstan and extending the entire width of the country, the Kazakh Steppe is a temperate grassland ideal for the mobile pastoralism Kazakhs had practiced for thousands of years prior to the Russian Empire’s encroachment on the region. An occupation natu…
This dissertation examines supra-ethnic nation-building in Kazakhstan, particularly focusing on policy outcomes since the republic became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The population of Kazakhstan is distinctive among countries of the post-Soviet space in terms of i…
In a comparative case study of two natural resource management projects in Kazakhstan, I examine how World Bank organizational structure and imperatives influence project implementation. Based on in-depth interviews, direct observation, and document review, I explore how organiz…
During the period of the Sino-Soviet Split, Soviet historians continually revised their approach to the writing of Uyghur history to suit the changing political situation. As in other Uyghur histories, Soviet historians divided Uyghur history into distinct narratives, depending …
This study in the anthropology of religion examines the relationship between Kazak ethnicity and religion, exploring how the collective memory is mediating Muslim values in Kazak culture in the 1990s. Ethnographic field research was conducted in the Kazak language from 1992 to 1…
This paper investigates secessionist conflicts that occurred in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Each of these states contains mature separatist movements, several of which have achieved the status of what can be called a semi-sovereign entity. All six separatist mo…
This dissertation examines the relationship between the use of student-centered instructional methods in teaching mathematics and science, and achievement of fourth graders in these subjects. The context for analyzing this relationship is the post-Soviet region, with Kazakhstan …
This dissertation is an ethnography of Kazakhstan's art world after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on fifteen months of anthropological field research in Almaty and Astana, in Kazakhstan, I inquire into the discourses and practices of aesthetic production as visual…
This study examines commonalities and differences in leadership choices preferred by female leaders in Kazakhstan, Sweden and the United States of America. The results of the study show that all respondents (1) value the same leadership traits; (2) recognize the importance of me…
The association of Kazakhstan to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a regional organization with a strong human rights component, could not induce the oil-rich Central Asian country, long since criticized for its poor human rights record, to change i…
Background: Many studies have shown that risky sexual behavior leads to increased rates of HIV infection among labor migrants. However, little is known about the role of social support in risky sexual behavior among labor migrants in Kazakhstan. This study explores the potential…
This thesis examines student participation from Kazakhstan in the Summer Work & Travel U.S.A. program. Kazakhstan's government emphasizes the Bologna Process, the government-funded Bolashak scholarship, and the new elite Nazarbayev University as pillars of educational internatio…
In the context of totalitarian regimes and their aftermaths, memorial landscapes are highly contested spaces in which newly emerging governments are quite active in framing and reframing the past as well as mapping a course for the future. Unsurprisingly, statuary and other over…
This dissertation explores how various actors in Kazakhstan have constituted the state's sovereign authority since gaining independence in 1991, and it contributes to a broad range of literatures, from political and urban geography, to post-Soviet and Central Asian regional stud…
The collapse of the Soviet Union provides several situations where the presence of Russian-speaking minorities produces a potential challenge to the consolidation of former Soviet Republics as independent democracies. My dissertation examines ethnic relations in two former Sovie…
Russia's relationship with the Kazakhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved from that of a pre-modern Muscovite state with several Inner-Asian nomadic neighbors, to that of a more centralized bureaucratic Russian Empire influenced by the European Enlightenment. The…