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Category: Kazakh SSR

Mapping other landscapes

September 13, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer

By Michael The following link redirects to my second entry in a new column hosted by the Central Eurasian Studies…

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Posted in: Cartography, Historiography, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog Filed under: maps, redirect

Traditions and Antiquity

April 18, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Traditions, in my experience, are crafted. Which is to say that they do not arise spontaneously out of the thin…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, Historiography, History, Identity, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Rant Filed under: family, family traditions, participation

Elim-ai: An investigation

November 6, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Previously I wrote that I would use the blog for writing practice, more specifically for writing things outside the scope…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, Historiography, Kazakh SSR, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Research, Shahkarim, Social History, Translation, Tynyshpaev

Famines and Zhuts

September 30, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

On a handful of occasions, I have encountered an interesting phenomenon in conversation with some citizens of the Republic of…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Comparative History, Eurasia, Famine, Kalmyk, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Mongols, Oirat, Sedentarization, Soviet History, Zunghar

Translation: Tynyshpaev, “Ak-taban-shubryndy”

August 18, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

This translation requires an admission of guilt. I am ashamed that I have left this translation only half-completed on other…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Military History, Nationalism, Nomadism, Soviet History, Tynyshpaev

Translation: Qudaiberdiev, “The Origins of the Qazaqs” (excerpts)

August 4, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

This is a translation of a longer work by Qudaiberdiev called “Genealogy of the Turks, Qazaqs, Khans.” In one section,…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Shahkarim, Translation, Zunghar

Histories and Stories

July 27, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I’m hoping to share more translations, but in the meantime I wanted to put together some words to articulate an…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, History, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Poetry, Popular History, Theory Filed under: history, theory

Translation: Qudaiberdiev, “Qazaq Has No Month Names”

July 23, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

There are no month names in Qazaq “Saryarqa,” Issue 25, March 22, 1918.  Our names for the months come from…

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Posted in: 20th Century, History, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Michael's Blog, Shahkarim, Social History, Translation

Shahkarim Qudaiberdiev: Introduction to Translations

July 22, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I will be posting some translations of some texts written by Shahkarim Qudaiberdiev, but I would like to preface those…

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Posted in: 20th Century, Cultural History, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Shahkarim, Social History, Soviet History, Tynyshpaev

Nomadism

March 6, 2013 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

In this post I will offer a few lighthearted challenges some common concepts and ideologies that I have encountered during…

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Posted in: Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Michael's Blog, Nomadism, Theory

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