Day: March 10, 2014

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 …

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, …

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, …