essay
The dynamics of feasting and gift exchange in rural Kazakstan
Contemporary Kazaks : cultural and social perspectives • New York • Published In 1999 • Pages: 47-72
By: Werner, Cynthia Ann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author examines the resurgence of feasting and gift-giving among Kazak households in the post-Soviet era. She describes in particular one extravagant feast and explains the behavior in maintaining and extending household networks, and establishing social status and identity. She notes the rising conspicuous consumption of imported commodities and comments on the struggle of poorer households trying to keep up with costs of feasts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Social relationships and groups
- Visiting and hospitality
- Household
- 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
- 1992-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1993-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cynthia Ann Werner
- for bibliographical references see document 18:Svanberg
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99037997
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kazakhs