Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - Repentence
2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
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Tag archive for ‘Culture’
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Movie Review: Tulpan
A review of Tulpan, a great look at life on the steppes of Kazakhstan and a light-hearted drama with bits of comedy mixed in. Incidentally, also the film from Kazakhstan that has won the most international awards!
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Peace Corps in Kazakhstan Over the Holidays
Found a bunch of great posts by Peace Corps volunteers all over Kazakhstan about their preparations for Christmas, their frustrations and hopes. Thought it made for interesting reading. How do expats deal with living in a country where one of their culture’s major holidays is not celebrated? And how do the holidays get Kazakhified? So […]
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Culture Shock Redux
Having been away in the US for the holidays and returning to Kazakhstan, I feel like I am going through a renewed wave of culture shock. It’s not that everything is unfamiliar, it’s that certain things that I had gotten used to are newly irritating. There are a number of every day experiences that certainly […]
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Falconry on the BBC
The BBC is reporting on falcon hunting in Kazakhstan, specifically problems with finding funding to keep the birds. So now they are catering to the elite, selling hunting trips which subsidizes falcon preserves. Check out the video here And if anyone knows a good place I can go falcon hunting near Astana, let me know. […]
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Fashion Week in Almaty: Photos
Overall more diversity I think than before. The show featured mostly Central Asian designers and in the past there was a lot of blending of traditional patterns and materials like felt and fur with haute-coutre. I think this time around it was more haute-coutre. Little to clearly distinguish this show as Kazakhstany: Transparent thin dress […]
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Amateur Anthropology in an Elevator
It is fascinating to watch the choices people make and how they frame those choices. So there is a very small elevator in our building (there are also larger elevators, mind). It can hold maybe 3 people–there’s an alarm that buzzes when the weight limit is surpassed which is surprisingly frequently. My building has seven […]
