During The Days of Yakutia in Kazakhstan and the II International Scientific and Practical Seminar “Modern historical and historical-anthropological studies of Eurasia” on April 18, 2024, the presentation of the collective monograph “Kumys holiday of the steppe world of Eurasia: leitmotif, memory and identity”, carried out as part of a scientific program carried out on the basis of The State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve “Bozok” of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The monograph was prepared by Zubaida Kabievna Suraganova, a leading researcher at the Institute of State History of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (director of the scientific program “Traditional Rituals as a manifestation of a mindful culture: resources and strategies of symbolic Capital of Steppe Eurasia”), PhD. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Ekaterina Nazarovna Romanova, Chief Researcher and Head of The Center for Intellectual History and Culture of the Institute for Humanitarian Studies and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Istor.Science, Naurzbayeva Zira Zhetibaevna, a famous researcher of Kazakh mythology, writer, screenwriter and translator, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences.
The book is dedicated to an ancient holiday tradition, the history of which dates back to ancient times.
Today, the Kumys holiday is a representation of the intangible cultural heritage, cultural memory and a manifestation of the identity of the peoples of steppe Eurasia.
