Focusing on the case study of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, this article examines high school students' perception of their schools and education by using metaphors. A total of 1433 high school students participated in this research. Based on the data that we collected from 9th and 10th grade students during field research (January - February 2020) in various regions of Kyrgyzstan and analysed students' answers about their schools. The findings show that the study's participants produced 178 metaphors about their schools. The participants used 102 positive, 108 negative metaphors and 32 metaphors fo ...Daha fazlası
This paper re-conceptualizes the four-seasonal cycling tradition of pre-Soviet Kyrgyz pastoralism, reconsidering the existing archival and oral materials. It argues that the summer quarters (zhailoo) in nomadic cycling were core contact zones for whole clan-based Kyrgyz community in pre-Soviet time whereas, the other winter, spring and autumn quarters remained in the margins. In addition, since all small and large nomadic groups from different regions were interacting in summer quarter, practicing the common language, ceremonies and traditions, this quarter also was preventing the emergence of ...Daha fazlası
Wool-focused economies yielded a pastoralist materiality that visibly shaped the lived experiences of Central Asian populations today. In this paper, we investigate the earlier application of fibers through a key mountain corridor for social interactions during Prehistory. We focus on the site of Chap 1 located in the highlands of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan where researchers have found a complex agropastoral subsistence culture was established from at least ca. 3,000 BCE. The perishable materials that would have accompanied the early spread of cultural and technological traditions r ...Daha fazlası
Artvin has been one of the first stops of various peoples and cultures since earliest times, since it is located on the road from the Caucasus to Anatolia. Most of the surveys carried out so far have been directed to the Middle Ages of the region. As a result of the surveys carried out in Artvin and its districts in 2019 with the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, centers that can shed light on the Bronze Age and nomadic culture of the region were identified. The survey in 2019 was carried out in the region covering centers, Arhavi-Demirkapn / Namazgah Rock Paintings, Yusufeli- ...Daha fazlası
2017-2018 yılları arasında Moğolistan’ın Orhun ve Selenge Havzası’nda yüzey araştırmaları gerçekleştirdik. 2017 yılında gerçekleştirilen çalışma boyunca Moğolistan’da 2.154 km yol katedilmiş, 3 aymak (bölge), 9 balık (şehir), 12 kült alanı ve kurgan merkezi, 4 runik yazıtlı belge (dikilitaş ve kaya üzeri yazmaları), 1 petroglif ve 7 müzede çalışma yapılmıştır. 2018 yılı yüzey araştırmamızda ise, 2.470 km yol katedilmiş, 2017 çalışmalarından farklı olarak 3 aymak, 2 balık ve manastır merkezi, 6 kült alanı, 9 kurgan merkezi, 2 petroglif alanı ve 2 müze ziyaret edilmiştir. Çalışmalarımızın büyük ...Daha fazlası
The Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty (1124-1218) is one of the most fascinating polities in medieval Eurasia, but also one of the least documented in terms of both literary sources and material culture. Founded by Khitan refugees who escaped from North China when the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234) vanquished the Khitan Liao dynasty (907-1125), the Qara Khitai soon established a multicultural empire in Central Asia, combining Khitan, Chinese, and Muslim elements. The Buddhist Qara Khitai ruled over their mostly Muslim population in rare harmony until the rise of Chinggis Khan (r. 1206-1227) ...Daha fazlası
The article examines the process of Islamization of the Semirechye region in the 9th - 12th centuries on the basis of a comparative analysis of materials from epigraphic gravestones with data from written sources. At the same time, special attention is paid to the texts of newly discovered epitaphs in the Issyk-Kul valley during archaeological and archaeographic expeditions.
Keyword: epigraphic monuments, Semirechye, Islamization, Sufi sheikhs, Karakhanids, Central Asia
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One of the unethical behaviors related to scientific research and publication ethics is unethical authorshippractices. It is purposed to determine the opinions of academicians about unethical authorship in this study. There were 49 academics in the study group of research, in which the basic qualitative research design was used. Data were collected with a semi-structured interview form. Descriptive analysis and, content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. More than half of the participants did not take any course or training on scientific research and publication ethics during their ...Daha fazlası
Archaeological research in the Kyrghyz Tian Shan Mountains using state-of-the-art technology such as geophysical investigations and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is still in its early stages. The current investigations have shed light on the complexity of burial grounds in the Suusamyr Plateau, where over 951 structures have withstood the test of time and now serve as a silent expression of ancient civilizations. This study utilized an integrative approach that combined UAV data and geophysical prospection to map surface and subsurface features. Of the identified structures, 68.2 are burial ...Daha fazlası
The “yurt” artifact is a part of the Kyrgyz and Tuvan peoples’ systems of cultural values. As a cognitive mechanism, language offers its own linguistic and creative interpretation. This paper considers the artifact “Yurt” in terms of cognitive linguistics by analyzing the concepts of boz üy and ѳg. The linguistic and cultural analysis of these concepts made it possible to reveal the specificity of their ethnolinguistic perception that discovers the role, place, and significance of “yurt” in the linguistic worldview of the Kyrgyz and the Tuvan peoples. Common cultural and linguistic roots of th ...Daha fazlası
Since the end of communism, Kyrgyzstan, like other Muslim-majority regions of the former Soviet Union, has experienced an ‘Islamic revival’. Among its manifestations has been a rising number of veiled women. Many of them have joined the Tablighi Jamaat (the Society for Spreading Faith) which provides Islamic teaching (taalim) and organises weekly religious sessions (ijtimas). The chapter examines the ways in which the Tablighi Jamaat has been shaping Kyrgyz women's understanding of Islam and what it means to them to be Muslim. It is particularly interested in the implications of the Tablighi J ...Daha fazlası
The main purpose of this article is to understand the historical breaks and changes in Chingiz Aitmatov's views on Soviet working life and labor relations. His works on working life and labor relations will be analyzed by dividing them into two periods. His first works were written on the assumption that the promises of the Socialist Revolution for a new life were realized. Workers live a happy and prosperous life in harmony with the system and their environment. The problems of exploitation, stratification and social conflict have been resolved and the ontological security of the workers has ...Daha fazlası