Month: March 2014

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Ата жолу During my fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan in summer and autumn 2011 I had the chance to visit two centers of the ата жолу movement, which spread from Kazakstan to Kyrgyzstan, attracting more and more people all over Kyrgyzstan. My fieldwork was actually focused on the question how traditional healers in Kyrgyzstan become practitioners, their …

On Friday, the 14th of November, Aibek Samakov and I went on a six hour trip with destination Naryn. The aim of our stay there was to conduct as many interviews as possible with traditional healers within two days, because Aibek needed to go back to Bischkek on Sunday. Arriving in the late evening in the …