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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 987

Part of Session 143: Language Change in Central Asia (Other abstracts in this session)

Investigating Connections between affirmations of ethnic language and compositions of national historiographies in the formation of national identity in Kazakhstan

Authors: Landis, David
Submitted by: Landis, David (KIMEP, Kazakhstan)

For more than 100 years, national governments have created ties between ethnic languages and national historiographies in order to form national identities. This proposal explores these connections by looking at how national governments used ethnographic research to create the links for the purposes of building support for key values and forming national identities.This proposal reviews the example of the Soviet empire, which used ethnographic research to create ties between ethnicity and the composing of a national historiography to create Soviet identity. Then the proposal considers the recent example of nation building in Kazakhstan. Examples of pupils' ethnographic research in local communities are investigated to see how their research efforts also make connections between ethnicity, national historiographies and 'Kazakhness' as identity.