Paper abstract:

Having emerged as an independent scientific direction in the 1960-70s, the history of everyday life has rapidly developed as an interdisciplinary field of research.

Studies on the history of changes in the daily life of the Kazakh traditional society XIX - early XX centuries are largely based on texts written by travelers and explorers who visited the Kazakh steppe. A separate place in modern historiography is occupied by research on the study of illustrative collections of visual sources of the 19th – the beginning of 20th centuries and their interpretations.

To study the social changes that took place through everyday practices, in addition to narrative materials, visual sources began to be more widely used - drawings by Russian and European researchers for the 18th - first half of the 19th centuries, and for the second half of the 19th - early 19th centuries. XX centuries - photographs of researchers of this period.

Main research questions:

The space of everyday life as a social space: the interaction of Kazakh sultans, biys, foremen and ordinary nomads in the context of the spread of new management standards as a result of the reforms of the Russian Empire in the Kazakh steppe in the 19th century.

Official public space in the Kazakh village: yurt, the traditional dwelling of the Kazakh nomad, is in the daily practices of public life and the exercise of power of local officials.

Private-public space of the Kazakh traditional family in visual sources: household utensils, traditional costume and its elements in the context of production and consumption processes, as an element of social status and lifestyle, i.e. as a carrier of information about social characteristics. In the process of functioning, the thing acquires value characteristics and conveys certain meanings that are essential for everyday culture.

Official public space and private public space in the Kazakh nomadic society could be combined through the characteristics of everyday life and holidays.