Kazakhstan in Pictures
Author: Bella Waters
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0822565889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history and culture of the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
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An Illustrated History of Kazakhstan
Author: Jeremy Tredinnick
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789622178526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lavishly illustrated book reveals the full history of the heart of Central Asia across the ages, focusing on the region that is modern-day Kazakhstan. Using essays from renowned archaeologists, historians and scholars as the core of each chapter, this book explains Kazakhstan s long and complex history. This flowing narrative is complemented ......
The Soul of Kazakhstan
Author: Wayne Eastep
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780970693907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays and information on the countyr of kazakhstan heavily illustrated with photos.
Kazakhstan
Author: Michael Fergus
Publisher: Stacey International
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1900988615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This comprehensive work, Kazakhstan, Coming of Age, places this remarkable country in that scene: its prospects, its history, geography, ways of life, ecology, economy and political structure, its astonishing cultural heritage." "Here is Kazakhstan in a work combining sound scholarship and research, written and assembled by experts, with over 400 photographs and many maps. It is the foundational work on the country, presented in the long-recognised Stacey International mould."--BOOK JACKET.
Nomads and Networks
Author: Sören Stark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalogue from the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, March 7-June 3, 2012.
Ice Fishers
Author: Loose Loose Joints
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781912719037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For generations, Kazakh fishers have set out on to the frozen Ishim River in the hope of catching fish beneath the ice. The Ishim flows through the country's capital, Astana, a high-rise, futuristic city that was built virtually from scratch in the 1990s, when the exploitation of Kazakhstan's oil reserves began. The city is intended to be an emblem of post-Soviet modernity and a hallmark of the country's entrance into the global economy. On the ice, the fishermen brave temperatures that often reach forty degrees below zero. While they fish, they protect themselves from the harsh weather with salvaged pieces of plastic, patched together from discarded packaging or rice bags found outside markets selling western, Chinese and Russian goods. By looking at the appropriation of these imported materials and their subsidiary application, Kondratyev illuminates the material flow of global capitalism and its effect on local, nomadic practices. Tracking this flow reveals the point at which international trade policy meets individual lives."--Publisher's website.
Kazakhstan
Author: Paul Brummell
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781841622347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKazakhstan is vast – the ninth-largest country in the world – yet there is relatively little information available in English about the attractions of this remarkable country. With the Kazakh government seeking to promote the development of tourism, publication of the Bradt guide is timely. Located between Russia and China, the state of Kazakhstan possesses an incredible diversity of natural beauty; this guide includes arrangements for visiting natural parks and reserves and special features such as singing sand dunes and the Sharyn Canyon - Asia’s equivalent of the Grand Canyon. Key historical and archaeological sites are also given due prominence, Kazakhstan having been inhabited since the Stone Age.
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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDromadaires et chameaux, animaux laitiers
Author: Pascal Bonnet
Publisher: Editions Quae
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 2876143070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region
Author: William Wheeler
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1800080336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea’s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral’sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.
