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Kyrgyz Clothing Culture and Accessories

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Mid-term Exam

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Kyrgyz Traditional Games and Sports

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Kyrgyz Festivals and Celebrations

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Kyrgyz Oral History and Storytelling

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Online Seminar with Guest Speaker from Kyrgyzstan

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Online Seminar with Guest Speaker from Kyrgyzstan

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Online Seminar with Guest Speaker from Kyrgyzstan

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Online Seminar with Guest Speaker from Kyrgyzstan

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Final Exam

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2. Adle, Chahryar: History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Volume VI: Towards the contemporary period: from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. UNESCO Publishing, Paris (2005)


3. Amsler, Sarah: The politics of knowledge in Central Asia: science between Marx and the market. Routledge, London (2007).


4. Chotaeva, Ch.: History of Kyrgyzstan. NEO Print, Bishkek (2016).


5. Eickelman, Dale F.: The Middle East and Central Asia: an anthropological approach. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. (2002).


6. Elizabeth E. Bacon: Central Asians under Russian rule. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y (1980).


7. Esenova, S.: Soviet Nationality, Identity, and Ethnicity in Central Asia: Historic Narratives and Kazakh Ethnic Identity. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 22, 11–38 (2002).


8. Hiro, Dilip: Inside central Asia: a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran. Overlook Duckworth, New York (2009).


9. Igmen, A.: Speaking Soviet with an Accent. Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania (2012).


10. Kadyrov, V.: Kyrgyzstan. Ethnic Jewellery of Central Asia. Raritet, Bishkek (2007).


11. Kadyrov, V.: Kyrgyzstan. The Art of Nomads. Raritet, Bishkek (2003).


12. Kasmambetov, S., Howard, K.: Singing the Kyrgyz Manas. Brill, Leiden  (2011).


13. Leeuwen, Carel van: Nomads in Central Asia: animal husbandry and culture in transition (19th-20th century). Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (1994).


14. Mambaeva, S.: Identifying Kyrgyz People and Culture. Bishkek (2008).


15. Mambaeva, S.: Kyrgyz People, Their Values and Beliefs. Bishkek (2011).


16. Sahadeo, Jeff, Zanca, Russell G.: Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind (2007).


17. Sneath, David: The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia. Columbia University Press, New York (2007).


18. Osmonov, O., Turdalieva, Ch.: A History of Kyrgyzstan (From Stone Age to the Present). Sarybaev TT, Bishkek (2016).