Tselinny Lecture Series: Ethnography of the Kazakh Steppe During the Colonial Period — Part One

The lecture explores key works by three prominent ethnographers: Aleksey Levshin (1798–1879), Chokan Valikhanov (1835–1865), and Georgy Gins (1887–1971).

Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. Her research focuses on urban anthropology, the anthropology of Islam, intellectual history, and postcoloniality.