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A note on romanization and preface
Contemporary Kazaks : cultural and social perspectives • New York • Published In 1999 • Pages: vi-xi
By: Svanberg, Ingvar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the introduction to an annotated volume, 'Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives' (for additional chapters from the volume, see documents 13-17.) The author briefly reviews previous ethnographic research of the culture and region. He himself did field research among the Kazaks of China in the early 1980s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kazakh
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kazakhstan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ingvar Svanberg
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99037997
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kazakhs