Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives

by Ingvar Svanberg

Release Date: December, 1999

Edition: Hardcover

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Highly recommended work of considerable scholarship.

Contemporary Kazakhs: Cultural And Social Perspectives is a superb ethnological survey of the Kazaks of Kazakstan with articles reflecting the contemporary life of rural and urban Kazaks. This meticulous collection revolves around the them of how the Kazak way of life has evolved and changed since achieving political independence. The contributors include Ingvar Svanberg (The Kazak Nation); Karen Odgaard and Jens Simonsen (The New Kazak Elite); Cynthia Ann Werner (The Dynamics of Feasting and Gift Exchange in Rural Kazakstan); Hilda C. Eitzen (Nawri'z in Kazakstan: Scenarios for Managing Diversity); and Peter Finke (The Kazaks of Western Mongolia). Enhanced with a bibliography and index, Contemporary Kazakhs is a work of highly recommended scholarship for students of international and ethnography studies in general, and Kazakstan in particular.