‘I Take My<i>Dombra</i>and Sing to Remember my Homeland’: Identity, Landscape and Music in Kazakh Communities of Western Mongolia

Post, Jennifer C.

doi:10.1080/17411910701276369

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“…For example, the debate surrounding the connection between the land and the Nez Perce of Idaho has been argued to be akin to a debate about ethnic survival (162). Kazakh communities in western Mongolia define Kazakhness in terms of the ecological environment of the mountains and use music to associate with this identity and place (163). Music is used to associate with both identity and place in other locations as well (164).…”

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Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

Russell¹,

Guerry²,

Balvanera

et al. 2013

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

536

348

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Ecosystems provide many of the material building blocks for human well-being. Although quantification and appreciation of such contributions have rapidly grown, our dependence upon cultural connections to nature deserves more attention. We synthesize multidisciplinary peerreviewed research on contributions of nature or ecosystems to human well-being mediated through nontangible connections (such as culture). We characterize these connections on the basis of the channels through which such connections arise (i.e., knowing, perceiving, interacting with, and living within) and the components of human well-being they affect (e.g., physical, mental and spiritual health, inspiration, identity). We found enormous variation in the methods used, quantity of research, and generalizability of the literature. The effects of nature on mental and physical health have been rigorously demonstrated, whereas other effects (e.g., on learning) are theorized but seldom demonstrated. The balance of evidence indicates conclusively that knowing and experiencing nature makes us generally happier, healthier people. More fully characterizing our intangible connections with nature will help shape decisions that benefit people and the ecosystems on which we depend.

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Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

Russell¹,

Guerry²,

Balvanera

et al. 2013

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

536

348

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“…Such issues have been widely neglected to date in attempts to disentangle identity formation in modern Mongolia. Although recent work by Post (2007) examines how Kazakh pastoralist minorities use music to promote 'community' and a sense of belonging in western Mongolia, often through specific relations with place and concepts of 'homeland', 9 her focus reflects many of the issues raised above. Marsh in contrast offers an analysis of hip-hop and rap music as ways in which urban youth seek to forge an identity quite distinct from preceding socialist-era generations and with concerns in marked contrast to romantic 'traditional' ballads about the countryside, nature and rural livelihoods.…”

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Upton¹

2010

Central Asian Survey

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“…Most Mongolian Kazakhs speak Kazakh (and Mongolian) but not Russian, and many have retained customs and traditions associated with ancient Kazakhs to a greater extent than many autochthonous Kazakhs living in Kazakhstan (Diener 2005, pp. 471-72;Post 2007;Lacaze 2010, p. 197). Rather than belonging to a different place, then, it is as if these diasporic Kazakhs appear to belong to a different time-an imagined past when Kazakhs were monolingual and retained traditions associated with a nomadic pastoral lifestyle.…”

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“…Gulsara's aunt and uncle, for example, had found a way to adapt and, while their children were likely to integrate further into Kazakhstani society, Gulsara herself had problems adapting to the linguistic environment in Kazakhstan. Even those who stay often experience a sense of loss, which often surfaces in musical performances (Post 2007). Perhaps not unusually, Mongolian Kazakhs often cope with these losses by maintaining a transnational identity that links them simultaneously to both countries (Basch et al 1994).…”

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