Purpose and tasks of the research. The goal of the research is a detection of general and specific features in historical-phased, ethno-cultural, ethno-genetic and economic-cultural relations through comparative studying of a family, family relationship, family customs and ceremonies of Kazakh and Central Asian people. In this connection the following specific tasks are solved:
studying forms of families, interfamily relationships in Kazakh and Central Asian people, defining of general and specific features of people in this sphere of traditional form of human being;
detection of general customs and rites that are typical for separate ethnos, groups of people, for the whole region and explaining their historical and cultural reasons through the description of the main cycles of people’s wedding rites of the regions being studied;
description and comparative-historical analysis of children ceremonies of Kazakh and Central Asian people, detection of their connections with historical-cultural, ethno-genetic processes on the territory of historical-ethnographic region from ancient times to the late medieval;
description and comparative analysis of funeral-memorial customs and rites of the regional people with the aim of detection of historical-phased, religious, ethnical and ethno-cultural background of these traditions;
semantic studying of separate family customs and rites of this people’s historical-ethnographic region and their connections with the same customs of neighboring historical-ethnographic regions of ethnoses;
detection of separate familial-marriage customs and rites of origin connections with phased historical-ethnographical traditions and economic-cultural types.
