The revival of mobile pastoralism in Kazakhstan

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" The revival of mobile pastoralism in Kazakhstan "
Gabriel McGuire J. Jackson

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1103799
Doc. No	:	TLpq1502868797
Main Entry	:	Gabriel McGuire
	:	J. Jackson
Title & Author	:	The revival of mobile pastoralism in Kazakhstan\ Gabriel McGuireJ. Jackson
College	:	Indiana University
Date	:	2013
student score	:	2013
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	309
Abstract	:	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 19th century and Soviet-era ethnographies of the Kazakhs, Kazakh language novels and poems, and contemporary mass media reports. It examines the various pastoral techniques by which the post-Soviet smallholder revival is made possible and contrasts them with both Soviet-era and pre-Soviet histories of steppe mobile pastoralism. In particular, it discusses mobile-pastoralism's status as an answer to the twinned dislocations of the Soviet Union's collapse: the end of the narrative of socialist progress, and the economic collapse of Rural Kazakhstan. The dissertation builds from an examination of how mobile pastoralism is now organized and made profitable, to an analysis of the rhetorical linkage of mobile pastoralism and Kazakh identity, and concludes with a brief discussion of these issues as they inflect debates over Russification and the status of Kazakh language in contemporary Kazakhstan.
Subject	:	Cultural anthropology
	:	Decollectivization
	:	Kazakhstan
	:	Mobile pastoralism
	:	Social sciences
	:	Village households