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Central Asia Live! What Role Do Tribalism And Kinship Play In Modern-Day Kazakhstan?


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In Central Asia, power and wealth are often kept and passed down in a family. But the concept of blood ties goes beyond immediate or extended family members. Political alliances and influential clans are also organized around tribal or regional kinship that goes back centuries to the times when today’s Central Asian nations were a group of separate tribes.

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