Nomad Society and Features of Wedding Customs of the Kazakhs (Based on the Works of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Authors)

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en Abenova, Almira Adamovna

Абенова, Альмира Адамовна

Title

Nomad Society and Features of Wedding Customs of the Kazakhs (Based on the Works of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Authors)

Alternative Title

Номадное общество и особенности свадебных обычаев казахов (по материалам работ дореволюционных российских авторов)

Publication Type

Journal Article

Language

rus

Number of Pages

4

Location

Kazakhstan

Keywords

traditional knowledge

Kazakh wedding

rituals

marriage

Relevance to ICH Safeguarding

documentation

definition

others

ICH Genre

social practices

rituals

Description

The article considers the peculiarities of Kazakh revolutionary Russian authors of the late 19th and early centuries. According to the author, the process wedding customs in the materials of the works of pre-20th of formation of the Kazakhs' ethnicity, and accordingly rituals, wedding traditions of the people is connected with the type of farming and lifestyle. In the researched period the Kazakh family institute, although influenced by the Tsar's reforms, retained the traditional way of life with a large patriarchal family. This is evidenced by the fact that the peculiarity of the Kazakhs' residency was the accumulation of a large family-related group that wandered together and led a common household. The system of basic value orientations of the steppe people was formed according to the specifics of the economic system of the nomadic society. The peculiarity of the Kazakh family was that it preserved the patriarchal features of nomadic culture. The families of nomads were not isolated, they maintained unity while solving all problems, including family problems. For the Kazakh people, matchmaking, wedding are some of the most important customs. The thoroughness of their preparation, the fairly stable form of the wedding rite, and the strength of the ancient steppe customs, which are due to the domination of the nomadic type of economy, ensured the historical continuity of the sociocultural community of the people.

Book/Journal Title

en Izvestiya of Altai State University

Известия Алтайского государственного университета

Publisher

Altai State University

Place of Publication

Barnaul, Russia

Date of Publication

2017

Issue

5(97)

Pages

121-124

ISSN

ISSN 1561-9443

ISSNe 1561-9451

Academic Field

Traditional culture

Cultural Studies

Contributor

Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Active Contribution

Kazakhstan, FY 2023