essay
The new Kazak elite
Contemporary Kazaks : cultural and social perspectives • New York • Published In 1999 • Pages: 17-45
By: Odgaard, Karen, Simonsen, Jens.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article the authors examine the Kazak intellectual elite and their role in controlling and shaping Kazak identity in the Soviet era. They also discuss the fall in status of the intelligentsia when post-Soviet era market reforms brought in new avenues of accumulating wealth, status, and power. They focus on a post-Independence period of 'national euphoria' and a subsequent period of more diffuse reckoning of national identity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Status, role, and prestige
- Downward mobility
- Social relationships and groups
- Liberal arts education
- Teachers
- Humanistic studies
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1990s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kazakhstan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karen Odgaard and Jens Simonsen
- for bibliographical references see document 18:Svanberg
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99037997
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kazakhs