Dynamics of Reciprocity and Networks of the Kyrgyz through Bishkek Toi Making

Important life-cycle events in Kyrgyz society are marked by the staging of large, informal feasting celebrations, known collectively as toi. This article discusses continuity and change in the materiality and spirituality of toi making, specifically in urban Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Organized on a larger scale and with more expenses than elsewhere in the country, Bishkek toi demonstrate material and spiritual reciprocities that are crucial in the reproduction of social solidarity and exclusion, as well as poverty, prestige, and power in the post-socialist context.

Author

• Turdalieva, Cholpon
• Provis, Rene

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00402005

Keyword

• social networking
• life-cycle celebrations
• Bishkek
• exclusion
• social solidarity

Date created

• 2017

Related url

•  https://brill.com/view/journals/caa/caa-overview.xml

Type of Work

• Article

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Central Asian Affairs Journal

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/41687j13h

In Collection:

• Central Asian Affairs

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