On Friday, the 9th of September, I left for a seven-day-trip to Talas oblast. This Friday I was leaving with the participants of the second World Festival of epics of peoples of the world, journalists, musicians, folklorists and epic tellers from ten different countries. This day was dedicated to a rich cultural program at Manas ordo, …
Month: March 2014
A JOURNEY TO BATKEN OBLAST BY ALEXANDRA TACEA
On Thursday, the 11th of August, Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva, Aibek Samakov and I started our trip to Batken oblast. At 9 o clock in the morning our plane went off, for the 1 ½ hour- journey from Manas airport, Bishkek, to Batken, the capital of Batken oblast, sited next to the Uzbek border. The first impressions, …
ALEXANDRA TACEA, INTERN
Alexandra-Laura Tacea (internship period from August 2011 to December 2011) is a junior student of the Anthropology Department at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen in Germany. Alexandra’s main subject for her Bachelor’s thesis is a research on The Path of Initiation of Kyrgyz Traditional Healers and Fortune Tellers. Alexandra joined …
PAUL PAESLER, INTERN
Paul Paesler is a junior student of the Anthropology Department at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tuebingen , Germany. Paul’s main subject for his Bachelor’s thesis is a research on love partnerships among young Kyrgyz people in Bishkek – and how they are arranged and influenced by certain criteria. Paul joined …