{"id":7910,"date":"2017-07-17T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/?page_id=7910"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:20:34","slug":"kazakhlitcult","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slavic\/slavicresearchguides\/country\/kazakhstan\/kazakhlitcult\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for the Study of Kazakh Literature and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As general sources for the study of various aspects of Kazakh literature and culture, many of the works highlighted on the Slavic Reference Service&#8217;s Kazakh National Bibliography page are of great value, particularly the <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/nationalbib\/natbibkazakh#catalogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> library catalogs<\/a>, <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/nationalbib\/natbibkazakh#bibsofbibs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> bibliography of bibliographies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/nationalbib\/natbibkazakh#baspasoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em> Baspaso\u0307z shezhi\u0304resi\u0304<\/em><\/a>, and A. E. Alektorov&#8217;s <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/nationalbib\/natbibkazakh#alektorov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em> Ukazatel&#8217; knig, zhurnal&#8217;nykh i gazetnykh statei i zamietok o kirgizakh<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 But perhaps the first bibliographies devoted specifically to some aspect of Kazakh literature and culture were those compiled by the archeologist I. A. Chekaninskii in volume 1 of <em> Zapiski Semipalatinskogo otdela Obshchestva izuchenii\ufe20a\ufe21 Kazakhstana = Qazaqystan tanuv qoghamynyn\ufe20g\ufe21 semei\u0306degi b <em> <em> o\u0307 <\/em> <\/em> liminin\ufe20g\ufe21 chazbalary <\/em> (U\u00a0of I Library call number History, Philosophy &amp; Newspaper FILM 915.8 Z17), including (for example) 85 entries on the great medieval Kazakh poem &#8216;Qozy Ko\u0307rpesh-Baian su\u0304lu&#8217; (pp. 55-63), 62 entries on shamanism\/&#8221;baksylyk&#8221; (pp. 85-87), and 18 entries on the ruins of Qyzylkenshi (pp. 96-98), many of them annotated.\u00a0 (Chekaninskii also contributed a bibliographical note on the famous 1916 anti-tsarist uprisings in Central Asia on pp. 105-109, which was surely one of the first to cite Kazakh-language sources.)<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious bibliographies of V. M. Sidel&#8217;nikov (see below) and G. Zhamansarina and B. Qanarbaeva ( <em> Qazaq auyz adebietining bibliografiialyq k <em> <em> <em> o\u0307 <\/em> <\/em> <\/em> rsetkishi, 1900-1991 = <\/em> <em> Bibliograficheskii ukazatel\u2019 ustnogo narodnogo tvorchestva, 1900-1991 &#8212; <\/em> Almaty, 1998) continued this trend with an emphasis on folklore, which has been brought more or less up to date with S. S. Akasheva&#8217;s <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/media\/#QFMF\"> <em> Qazaqstan fol\u02b9klory men fol\u02b9kloristikasy <\/em> <\/a> (Almaty, 2002).\u00a0 A number of other reference works covering non-folkloric subjects exist, however, and a sampling of these has been annotated below as well.<\/p>\n<p>In general, researchers interested in the cultural life of Kazakhstan should familiarize themselves with the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madenimura.kz\/kk\/culture-legacy\/books\/\">Ma\u0306deni Mu\u0304ra (&#8220;Cultural Heritage&#8221;) series<\/a> published by the Kazakh Ministry of Culture.\u00a0 Over 500 volumes in this unnumbered series have appeared since its inception in 2004, several of which are described below.\u00a0 As of September 2012, the full text of most of these volumes is freely available.<\/p>\n<p>Pending the inclusion of additional materials (such as the 1996-1997 Russian\/Kazakh bibliographic pair <em> Literatura i iskusstvo Kazakhstana:<br \/>\nbibliograficheskii ukazatel\u2019, <span class=\"matchterm0\"> 1932-1992 <\/span> <\/em> and <em> Qazaqstan adebiettanuy zhane syn: <\/em> <em> bibliografiialyq korsetkish, <span class=\"matchterm0\"> 1932-1992 <\/span> <\/em> ), this page is divided into the following sections: Bibliographies, Biobibliographies and Encyclopedias and Dictionaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"bib\"><\/a> Bibliographies<\/h2>\n<h3><a name=\"sidelnikov\"><\/a> Ustnoe poeticheskoe tvorchestvo kazakhskogo naroda: bibliograficheskii ukazatel&#8217;, 1771-1966 gg.<\/h3>\n<p>Sidel&#8217;nikov, V. M.\u00a0 Alma-Ata: &#8220;Nauka,&#8221; 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong> U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Central Asian Reference\u00a0016.8943 Si1u; also available at Oak Street Facility.<\/p>\n<p>Published under the auspices of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences&#8217; M. O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art, this slim volume provides an excellent overview of nearly two centuries of scholarship on (and transcription of) Kazakh folklore and the Kazakh oral\/musical poetic tradition.\u00a0 The categories &#8220;folklore&#8221; and &#8220;oral tradition&#8221; are broadly conceived, as can be seen by the inclusion of entries for a 19-page pamphlet on Chokan Valikhanov due to its coverage of his ethnographic work, and of a 1957 volume of Makhambet Otemi\u0304sov&#8217;s poetry due to the popularity and subsequent &#8220;folkorization&#8221; of his songs. \u00a0Reviews of items cited in the bibliography (if any) are themselves cited at the end of the entry for that item.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the bibliography is that the vast majority of the nearly 2,000 entries are accompanied by brief yet useful annotations.\u00a0 The entries are organized chronologically, beginning with Peter Pallas&#8217; <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4Z1bAAAAQAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=pallas+reise+1771&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Yh7c0lW5Cj&amp;sig=NTryU6GDQ4j8JpwCpJb1CDidldw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=vNlhUIe4Fq78yAHZ_4CACg&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;q&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs <\/a> <\/em> (St. Petersburg, 1771), which included a handful of Kazakh legends along with its descriptions of Kazakh religion and customs.\u00a0 The index includes names of those who collected, transmitted, translated or commented on folkoric sources. Since a number of journals and newspapers are cited in the entries in a somewhat cryptic abbreviated form, a list of these periodicals and their abbreviations is also provided.<\/p>\n<p>The entries in this bibliography were mainly derived from other, more general bibliographic sources such as <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/nationalbib\/natbibkazakh#alektorov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> A. E. Alektorov&#8217;s <em> Ukazatel&#8217; knig, zhurnal&#8217;nykh i gazetnykh statei i zamietok o kirgizakh <\/em> <\/a> and the indexes to prerevolutionary journals such as <em> Russkii filologicheskii viestnik<\/em>, <em> Izvestiia Otdeleniia russkago iazyka i slovesnosti<\/em>, <em> Etnograficheskoe obozrienie<\/em>, and <em> Zhivaia starina<\/em>.\u00a0 In an attempt to include materials never before indexed, this corpus of entries was supplemented based on items found in the collections of what are now the Russian State Library, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shpl.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the (Russian) State Historical Library<\/a>, the national libraries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the library of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, and others.\u00a0 Books, brochures, edited volumes, individual articles within edited volumes, journal articles, newspaper articles, and avtoreferaty of dissertations broadly relevant to the study of Kazakh folklore are all included.\u00a0 Sidel&#8217;nikov, a prolific scholar of folklore and folk songs, also compiled a predecessor volume (<em>Bibliograficheskii ukazatel\u2019 po kazakhskomu ustnomu tvorchestvu<\/em>, Alma-Ata, 1951).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"QFMF\"><\/a> Qazaqstan fol\u02b9klory men fol\u02b9kloristikasy (1990-2000 zhzh.): bibliografii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq qo\u0307rsetki\u0304sh = Fol\u02b9klor i fol\u02b9kloristika Kazakhstana (1990-2000 gg.): bibliograficheskii\u0306 ukazatel.<\/h3>\n<p>Akasheva, S.S.\u00a0 Almaty: Tsentral&#8217;naia nauchnaia biblioteka, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U of I Library\u00a0Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Central Asian Reference\u00a0016.398095845 Ab93k<\/p>\n<p>Published by the Library of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, this bibliography of folkloric prose, poetry and folklore studies published in Kazakhstan in the 1990s contains over 1,700 entries for books, journal articles, newspaper articles, dissertations and other types of publications.\u00a0 Publications and re-publications of actual folkloric texts are indexed in the first section of the bibliography, followed by scholarly studies of folklore-related subjects in the second section.\u00a0 Additional sections are devoted to the 1,000th anniversary of the Kyrgyz epic <em> Manas <\/em> and to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Kazakh <em> aqyn <\/em> (&#8220;folksinger&#8221;) Zhambyl Zhabai\u0306u\u0304ly.\u00a0 &#8220;Folklore&#8221; is broadly conceived and not limited to ethnic Kazakh traditions, as can be seen by the inclusion of citations to studies on the folklore of Kazakhstan&#8217;s Russian and other non-Kazakh populations, as well as materials relating to folk traditions elsewhere in the world.\u00a0 Items with ambiguous titles are accompanied by brief annotations explaining their subject focus.\u00a0 Author and title indexes are provided, and a brief introduction (in Russian) provides an overview of the discipline of folklore studies and the activities of prominent folklorists in Kazakhstan in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"biobib\"><\/a> Biobibliographies<\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Qazaqstannyn\ufe20g\ufe21 ko\u0307rkem a\u0306debieti\u0304, 1946-1957: bibliografii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq ko\u0307rsetki\u0304sh = Khudozhestvennai\ufe20a\ufe21 literatura Kazakhstana, 1946-1957: bibliograficheskii\u0306 ukazatel\u02b9.<\/h3>\n<p>Almaty: Qazaq SSR-ni\u0304n\ufe20g\ufe21 A.S. Pushkin atyndaghy memleketti\u0304k respublikalyq ki\u0304tapkhanasy, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Central Asian Reference 016.8943 Al6k<\/p>\n<p>Although the time period referred to in the title might seem to limit the usefulness of this nearly-700-page biobibliography to those interested in immediate post-war Kazakh literature, this impression is misleading.\u00a0 All materials cited were indeed published between 1946 and 1957, but new editions of (or commentaries on) the works of authors active in earlier periods (such as the great Kazakh literary luminaries Abai and Otemi\u0304sov) are also included.\u00a0 Thus the bibliography provides a window into the entirety of Kazakh literary publishing and criticism in the immediate post-war years, including new versions of (and literary criticism of) works which were originally published before the war (or before 1917, for that matter).\u00a0 Additional significance derives from its publication at the height of the Khrushchev thaw, enabling the inclusion of information on authors who fell victim to Stalinist purges, such as Saken Seifullin (pp. 217-220 and 542-545), for the first time in over two decades.\u00a0 The bibliography was compiled based on the holdings of what were then the All-Union Book Chamber and All-Union Rudomino State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, and of what are now the Kazakh National Library, Library of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, and National Book Chamber of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>The biobibliography follows an organizational scheme strongly reminiscent of that of the great ongoing biobibliographical series for Russian literature, <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/subjectresources\/subsourrus\/ruslitbib2#rspispr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em> Russkie (sovetskie) pisateli: prozaiki <\/em> <\/a> and <em> <a href=\"\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguide\/subjectresources\/subsourrus\/ruslitbib2#rusopipoet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russkie (sovetskie) pisateli: poeti <\/a> <\/em> (U of I Library call number International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Russian Reference\u00a0016.8917 L54r and Main Stacks 016.8917 R921s).\u00a0 Standalone entries are provided for each individual author and his* works.\u00a0 Entries generally begin with biographical information about the author (which varies in length and level of detail based on the perceived importance of the author) and end with an extremely detailed list of their publications (and publications about them) between 1946 and 1957, including translations into other languages, newspaper articles, reviews, works appearing in anthologies, etc.\u00a0 A fair number of the items in these lists are given added value by lengthy and useful annotations.<\/p>\n<p>While the index of personal names covers the entire work, the biobibliography is nevertheless divided into two main parts, one in Kazakh, and one in Russian.\u00a0 All authors listed in the former, however, are also listed in the latter, with their works divided into &#8220;Qazaq tilinde\/Na kazakhskom iazyke&#8221; and &#8220;Orys tilinde\/Na russkom iazyke&#8221; sections as appropriate.\u00a0 Researchers should note that the Kazakh- and Russian-language biographical entries for individual authors are not direct translations of one another, nor are the lists of their works identical in both sections, suggesting that the first and second halves of the work were compiled independently of one another.\u00a0 The biographical information is usually slightly different, the annotations for Kazakh-language publications can be significantly longer in the Kazakh section than in the Russian section (and vice versa), and some individual works (and reviews thereof) may appear in one section but not the other (the entries for D. E. Riabukha &#8212; pp. 309-311 and 616-618 &#8212; are a good example of this).\u00a0 In general, the Russian section gives a more comprehensive overview of an author&#8217;s works, regardless of language, while the Kazakh section goes into more detail about each author&#8217;s Kazakh-language publications (and criticism thereof).\u00a0 Linguistic skills permitting, users should consult both sections to acquaint themselves with the full biography and the full range of materials by and about a particular author.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two main sections, a number of additional sections are also included, featuring (for example) bibliographies of various aspects of post-war Kazakh literary criticism (including lit crit on pre-revolutionary Kazakh literature), information on the contents of several dozen Kazakh- and Russian-language literary anthologies, and entries for Soviet Uighur authors (pp. 641-646).\u00a0 Together with N. Sabitov&#8217;s <em> Qazaq adebietining bibliografiialyq korsetkishi, 1862-1917 <\/em> (Almaty, 1948), Abdilkhamit Narymbetov&#8217;s three-volume <em> Qazaq sovet adebieti: adebiet tanu men synnyng bibliografiialyq korsetkishi <\/em> (1970- ), its multivolume successor <em> Qazaq adebieti: adebiettanu, syn zhane onerding bibliografiialyq korsetkishi <\/em> (1986- ), and the Kazakh National Library&#8217;s new Russian\/Kazakh pair of bibliographies for the decade following the years covered in this volume ( <em> Khudozhestvennaia literatura Kazakhstana, 1958-19 <\/em> 67 and the two-volume <em> Qazaqstannyng korkem adebieti, 1958-1967<\/em>, both published in 2008), this impressive volume will provide researchers with excellent bibliographic access to the entirety of Kazakh literary publishing and literary criticism.<\/p>\n<p>*The authors selected for inclusion are almost exclusively male.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Abaevedenie: bibliograficheskii ukazatel&#8217; = Abai\u0306tanu: bibliografii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq ko\u0307rsetki\u0304sh.<\/h3>\n<p>Mirzakhmetov, M. Alma-Ata: &#8220;Nauka,&#8221; 1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OCLC Accession Number:<\/strong> 20934746<\/p>\n<p>Like Khoja Akhmed Iassaui, the importance of Abai Qu\u0304nanbai\u0306u\u0304ly (a.k.a. Kunanbaev) to contemporary Kazakh identity and culture is difficult to overestimate. Partly due to his own role as an interpreter and reformer of Kazakh traditional culture, this comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Abai (as he is commonly known) therefore functions not merely as a reference work focused on a single individual, but provides a window into Kazakh culture as a whole.\u00a0 Endeavoring to index all materials relating to Abai published between 1898 and 1985, the bibliography is divided into Kazakh- and Russian-language sections, with separate indexes of personal names for each.\u00a0 Separate lists of the Kazakh- and Russian-language periodicals used in the compilation of the bibliography are also included.\u00a0 The entries are organized thematically, under rubrics such as &#8220;Abai shygharmalarynyng tekstologiiasy zhaiylda,&#8221; &#8220;Mukhtar Auezov &#8212; abaitanudyng negizin salushy,&#8221; &#8220;Abai murasy okulyqtarda,&#8221; &#8220;Ideino-kul&#8217;turnye istoki Abaia,&#8221; &#8220;Ob istorii Abaevedeniia,&#8221; and &#8220;Dissertatsii o literaturnom nasledii Abaia Kunanbaeva.&#8221;\u00a0 Within each of these sections, entries are listed alphabetically by main entry (i.e., by author or first word of the title for collectively-authored works).\u00a0 The bibliography was published by the M. O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, and begins with a brief Kazakh-language introduction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Bibliograficheskii\u0306 ukazatel\u02b9 po tvorchestvu M.O. Aue\u0307zova = M. O. A\u0306uezov tvorchestvosy boi\u0306ynsha bibliografii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq ko\u0307rsetki\u0304sh.<\/h3>\n<p>A\u0306uezova, L. M. et al. Alma-Ata: &#8220;Nauka,&#8221; 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211; Central Asian Reference\u00a0016.894337 B471 v. 1<\/p>\n<p>Published by the Kazakh Academy of Sciences&#8217; Institute of Literature and Art that bears his name, this was the first attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about the great Kazakh playwright, author, literary scholar, and president of the Kazakh Writer&#8217;s Union, Mu\u0304khtar A\u0306uezov (1897-1961). \u00a0A\u0306uezov&#8217;s daughter La\u0306i\u0306la played a leading role in compiling the bibliography.\u00a0 The entries are separated into two main sections:\u00a0 works by Auezov, and works about him.\u00a0 Within each section, the entries are organized by language (works in Kazakh, works in Russian, works in other languages of the Soviet Union, works in foreign languages) and then chronologically by date of publication. Auezov&#8217;s own works are further subdivided by genre (short stories, novels, plays, librettos, collected works, etc.).\u00a0 Books, journal articles, newspaper articles, individual articles from edited volumes, forewords and commentaries from editions of Auezov&#8217;s works, reminiscences of Auezov in the memoirs of his contemporaries, and official documents relating to Auezov&#8217;s literary, cultural and leadership activities published since 1917 are all indexed.\u00a0 Some of the entries are enhanced by brief annotations and\/or detailed lists of contents.\u00a0 Two title indexes &#8212; one Kazakh, one Russian &#8212; of Auezov&#8217;s works are provided, along with separate Kazakh and Russian indexes of personal names.\u00a0 A number of previously-published bibliographies of Auezov and Kazakh literature in general were consulted in the compilation of this work, as were the collections of most of the major libraries of Kazakhstan and the USSR.\u00a0 Special emphasis was placed on tracking down and indexing Auezov&#8217;s early, often pseudonymous works in Soviet Kazakh literary journals of the 1920s.\u00a0 The thorough bibliographic examination of these rare periodical publications was complemented by a review of later Kazakh periodical publications (including regional newspapers) through the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>While the work is labelled &#8220;volume 1,&#8221; no library in the United States appears to hold any subsequent volumes. Auezov&#8217;s eponymous institute at the Academy of Sciences appears to have published an expanded version or successor edition in 2005 (<em>M. O. Auezov shygharmashylyghy boiynsha bibliografynsha bibliograiialyq korketkish<\/em>), but no U.S. library appears to hold this volume either.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<p>Both before and after the end of the Soviet era, bibliographies on other important Kazakh cultural figures (e.g., the Kazakh National Library&#8217;s 1994 <em> Qozha Akhmed Iassaui: bibliografiialyq k <em> o\u0307r <\/em> setkish = Khodzha Akhmed Iassavi: bibliograficheskii ukazatel&#8217; <\/em> and its 1965 <em> Saken Seifullin: tughanyna 70 zhyl toluyna arnalghan a\u0306debietterdi\u0304n\ufe20g\ufe21 qo\u0307rsetqi\u0304shi\u0304 <\/em> &#8212; U\u00a0of I Library call number: Oak Street Facility 016.894337 Sa29) have also been compiled.\u00a0 Taken together, they can provide a broad sense of the cultural preoccupations and concerns of the Kazakh people through history as well as at the present time.\u00a0 The above bibliographies on Abai and Auezov are meant to be representative of the genre and indicative of the type of research that such resources make possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"enc-dict\"><\/a> Encyclopedias and Dictionaries<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madenimura.kz\/kk\/culture-legacy\/books\/book\/kazak-edebieti-enciklopedialyk-anyktamalyk\">Qazaq a\u0306debieti\u0304: e\u0307nt\ufe20s\ufe21iklopedii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq anyqtamalyq.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Baltabai Abdighaziev, ed.\u00a0 Almaty: \u201cAruna,\u201d 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Central Asian Reference 894.33703 Q12<\/p>\n<p>Part of the \u201cMa\u0306deni Mu\u0304ra\u201d series, the entries in this encyclopedia effectively trace the history of the narrative form in Kazakhstan from ancient times to the present.\u00a0 Most of the entries are biobibliographical in nature, focusing on individual authors, poets, critics, storytellers, reciters of epics, literary scholars, etc. who were or are active in Kazakhstan.\u00a0 About 5,000 entries (mostly brief) and over 1,500 small illustrations (mostly black &amp; white portraits) are included.\u00a0 The main bibliographic effort has been expended on the biographical entries, while entries on genres (\u201cZhurnalistika,\u201d \u201cZhyraulyq poeziia,\u201d \u201cPsikhologiialyq roman\u201d), abstract concepts (\u201cKontekst,\u201d \u201cBurkenshik at,\u201d \u201cTartys\u201d), and some types of publications (e.g., prerevolutionary newspapers such as <em> Alash <\/em> and <em> Qazaq <\/em> ) are largely without accompanying bibliographies.\u00a0 The large majority of cited sources are in Kazakh, the remainder in Russian.\u00a0 The volume ends with a list of abbreviations, a list of contributors, and a brief list of sources used in compiling the encyclopedia (all published since 1993).\u00a0 A major emphasis is placed on Kazakhstan\u2019s rich oral tradition.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2012, a complete digital version of this encyclopedia is available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madenimura.kz\/kk\/culture-legacy\/books\/book\/kazak_madeniet\">Qazaq ma\u0306denieti\u0304: e\u0307nt\ufe20s\ufe21iklopedii\ufe20a\ufe21lyq anyqtamalyq.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Ashirbek Syghai, ed.\u00a0 Almaty: \u201cAruna,\u201d 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong> U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> Central Asian Reference 958.4503 Q12<\/p>\n<p>Effectively a companion volume to the previous encyclopedia, this work attempts to cover aspects of Kazakhstan\u2019s culture other than oral and written literature, including architecture, archaeology, visual arts, art history, music, drama, film, and handicrafts.\u00a0 All time periods from antiquity to the present are included.\u00a0 Entries range from substantial reviews of Kazakh aesthetics, ethics, theater, painting, etc., to biographies of individual artists, actors, musicians, and others, to discussions of individual circus and dance troupes, state-sponsored performance companies, archaeological sites, traditional Kazakh decorative techniques, musical instruments, and other subjects.\u00a0 Somewhat incongruously, entries for a number of non-Kazakh cultural phenomena (\u201cAkkordeon,\u201d \u201cDzhaz,\u201d \u201cZikkurat,\u201d \u201cQaita orkendeu dauiri\u201d [the Renaissance], \u201cSonata,\u201d \u201cStanislavskii zhuiesi,\u201d \u201cEkspressionizm\u201d) are also included.\u00a0 Most of the more substantial entries conclude with brief bibliographies of related Kazakh- and Russian-language sources, while biographical entries for actors, composers and the like include acting credits, works composed, etc. in the main body of the entry. \u00a0A few entries are devoted to cultural figures and institutions from Kazakhstan\u2019s Korean, Uighur, and other ethnic minorities, while Russian and Ukrainian contributions to the culture of Kazakhstan are well represented.\u00a0 The volume ends with a list of abbreviations, a list of contributors, and a brief list of sources used in compiling the encyclopedia (ranging in date of publication from 1987-2004).\u00a0 While the juxtapositions between entries on the architecture of ancient ruins and on modern rock groups (among others) can be jarring, the more than 6,000 entries and approximately 2,500 small but effective illustrations (frequently in color) included here do provide a comprehensive snapshot of the cultural life of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2012, a complete digital version of this encyclopedia is available.\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Qazaq a\u0306debi ti\u0304li\u0304ni\u0304n\ufe20g\ufe21 so\u0307zdi\u0304gi\u0304: on bes tomdyk.<\/h3>\n<p>Ysqaqov, Akhmedi and Nurgeldi Uali, eds.\u00a0 Almaty: \u201cArys,\u201d 2006 \u20132011. 15 vols.<\/p>\n<p><strong> U of I Library Call Number: <\/strong> International &amp; Area Studies&#8211;Central Asian Reference 494.33703 Q125 v. 1-15<\/p>\n<p>This massive dictionary of the Kazakh literary language includes terminology from all disciplines, time periods, and sociolinguistic registers &#8212; over 150,000 entries in all.\u00a0 Like the <em> Oxford English Dictionary <\/em> , on which this dictionary is either intentionally or unintentionally modeled , these entries are supported by nearly 600,000 quotations drawn from thousands of individual sources, representing a significant increase (rich in new, post-independence borrowings and neologisms) over its celebrated predecessor, Akhmedi Ysqaqov\u2019s ten-volume <em> Qazaq <em> ti\u0304li\u0304ni\u0304n\ufe20g\ufe21 <\/em> tu\u0307si\u0304ndi\u0304rme so\u0307zdi\u0304gi\u0304 <\/em> (1974 \u20131986).\u00a0 Major sources include the Kazakh oral poetic tradition (including transcriptions of Kazakh epics from the eighteenth century forward), influential Kazakh-language periodicals such as <em> Aiqap <\/em> (Troitsk, 1911\u20131915), the works of seminal figures such as Abai, Auezov, and Mustafa Shoqai, and the works of Kazakhstan\u2019s current president.\u00a0 Material is also drawn from a wide range of other sources (dictionaries of sports, obstetrics\/gynecology, and banking, for example). The list of sources occupies more than 40 densely printed pages, and itself constitutes a bibliography of virtually every significant work in the Kazakh language. Words of Arabic, French, Latin, and Greek origin are given in the original, usually without acknowledgement of the role of Russian (if any) in transmitting them to Kazakh. The entries can be quite elaborate, as can be seen in the 15 pages devoted to <em> saiasat <\/em> (politics) and its derivatives (<em>aleumettik saiasat <\/em> [social policy], <em> saiasatshyldyq <\/em> [political intrigue], and so on).<\/p>\n<p>A lengthy Kazakh-language introduction and afterword explain the compilers&#8217; methodology and standards in detail, as well as situating the dictionary among earlier efforts to record the Kazakh language.\u00a0 The dictionary was compiled by the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan\u2019s A. Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics, which (according to press releases) is already planning an expanded 20-volume edition.\u00a0 Part of the Ma\u0306deni Mu\u0304ra series like the previous two items, this is already one of its most substantial publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As general sources for the study of various aspects of Kazakh literature and culture, many of the works highlighted on the Slavic Reference Service&#8217;s Kazakh National Bibliography page are of great value, particularly the library catalogs, bibliography of bibliographies, Baspaso\u0307z shezhi\u0304resi\u0304, and A. E. 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