The Challenge of the Time: Reproduction of "Forgotten" Traditions in the Modern Kazakh Culture

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Author(s)
en Stasevich, Inga V.
Стасевич, Инга Владимировна
Title
The Challenge of the Time: Reproduction of "Forgotten" Traditions in the Modern Kazakh Culture
Alternative Title
Вызов времени: воспроизведение «забытых» традиций в современной казахской культуре
Publication Type
Journal Article
Language
rus
Number of Pages
9
Location
Kazakhstan
Keywords
rituals
social practices
festive events
worldview
traditions
life-cycle rites
Relevance to ICH Safeguarding
identification
documentation
promotion
transmission
awareness raising
ICH Genre
rituals
social practices
festive events
worldview
Description
This paper is based on the materials on the traditional and modern Kazakh culture. The author analyzes some ritual practices of the life cycle, which are founded on the traditional scenario but understood by the modern
Kazakhs at a new level and often are vested with a new sense and significance. The main sources of the conducted research are represented by the field observations of the author and information from the Kazakh Internet
resources concerning the problems of administering principal life-cycle rituals. Regular and systematic field investigations allow us to register the dynamics of formation and evolution of such practices over a fairly short time
span of within 10–15 years. It is this period over which they can develop from innovation into tradition. This approach provides possibility of studying the forms and the way of the transformation of a tradition from the historical perspective. The author pays special attention to the strategies of sustaining the continuity in present-day lifecycle ritualism and to the mechanisms of the formation of the local and regional identity in present-day conditions. Locally synchronous view of the tradition demonstrates the reflection of the individual on the challenge of the time, their ability to adapt to the changing external and internal conditions. This dynamic provides the very process of the transformation of the traditions, reconsideration of the "regional" initiatives imposed from above and their transition into local variants. Each tradition had once been an innovation
examination of the modern forms of ritualism over a short time span allows capturing the process of establishing new customs, behavioral stereotypes, and the ways of their preservation and propagation over several decades. Innovations appear, as a rule, in the periods of relative social and cultural instability, when a certain discontinuity occurs between the worldview and ideological norms of the generations in response to the changing conditions of their existence. In the present-day Kazakh culture, the pace of alteration of the rites is considerably higher than that in a traditional society
however, the current demand for the ritual accompaniment of the stages of the human life cycle warrants reproduction of main traditional practices and creation of new practices on the basis of rethinking of the traditional patterns.
Book/Journal Title
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии(Bulletin of Arheology, Antropology and Etnography)
Publisher
RAN, Tyumen Centre
Place of Publication
St. Petersburg, Russia
Date of Publication
2021
Volume
53 (2)
Pages
146–154
ISSN
1811-7465
Usage
copyright cleared
Academic Field
Anthropology
Cultural studies
Community/Ethnic Group
Kazakhstan
Active Contribution
Kazakhstan, FY 2024

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