Steppe Dreams : Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan /

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Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Like many holidays in the post-Soviet sphere, public celebrations in Kazakhstan often reflect multiple...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adams, Margarethe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Central Eurasia in context.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Collective memory > Kazakhstan.
Space and time > Social aspects > Kazakhstan.
Space and time > Political aspects > Kazakhstan.
Festivals > Kazakhstan.
Political customs and rites > Kazakhstan.
Holidays > Political aspects > Kazakhstan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene : a musical map of Almaty
  • Airing independence : performing the past and the future on December 16
  • Same time next year : winter and rhythmicity on television
  • An archaeology of Nauryz : the ancient past in public culture
  • Traveling histories : ethnicity, mobility, and religion in spring celebrations
  • Playing at war : musical commemorations of World War II on May 9
  • The precarious present and the city of the future : Astana, Islam, and pilgrimage
  • Conclusion. Striking the set.

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