of historical sciences on specialty 07.00.07 – Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology KAlshabayeva Bibizia Kenzhebekovna The Kazakhs of Central Asia
(historic-ethnographic studies) The present dissertation is devoted to one of the acute and most complicated problems of ethnic history and ethnic peculiarities of Central Asian Kazakhs, living outside their own territory due to several historic reasons. Here on the basis of different written records, represented by various languages, and also on the materials of folk literature are researched the reasons, context and character of the Kazakh Diaspora and irredentism where survived the traditional culture.
