Kulturní studia / Cultural Studies
Aral Sea

Shrinking pastoral opportunities in space and time: the effects of multi-dimensional transformations in Kazakhstan

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2026-01(26).01 Author: Mayinu Shanatibieke Affiliation: Ethnic Minority Study Center of China, Minzu University of China, No.27, Zhongguancun Nandajie Street, 100081 Beijing, China Email: maykz@163.com Author: Hermann Kreutzmann Affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Email: h.kreutzmann@fu-berlin.de Language: English Issue: 1/2026 (26) Pages: 3–31 (29 pages) Keywords: Pastoralism, collectivisation, modernisation, resettlement, sedentarisation, Kazakhstan,…

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St Isaac the Syrian

St Isaac the Syrian: from Tehran to Moni Iviron, Mount Athos

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2026-01(26).02 Author: Sebastian Brock Affiliation: Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, United Kingdom Email: sebastian.brock@ames.ox.ac.uk Language: English Issue: 1/2026 (26) Pages: 32–43 (21 pages) Keywords: Isaac of Nineveh; Syriac Christianity; manuscript transmission; textual criticism; Greek translation; monastic literature; ecumenical reception Abstract This article examines recent…

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Transnistria

Business as usual in Transnistria: survival strategies of entrepreneurs in a de facto state

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2026-01(26).03 Author: Magdalena Dembińska Affiliation: Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7, Canada Email: magdalena.dembinska@umontreal.ca Language: English Issue: 1/2026 (26) Pages: 44–63 (20 pages) Keywords: Transnistria, de facto states, everyday life, entrepreneurship, survival strategies, oligarchic power, liminality, ethnography, political economy Abstract This article analyses how small…

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Uzbekistan

Everyday life at the edge of collapse: elite autobiographical narratives of the late Soviet transformation in Uzbekistan

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2026-01(26).04 Author: Alisher Sabirov Affiliation: Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical University, Bunyodkor shoh ko’chasi 27, 100185 Tashkent, Uzbekistan Email: al_sobir@inbox.ru Language: English Issue: 1/2026 (26) Pages: 64–94 (31 pages) Keywords: Everyday life; systemic collapse; late socialism; Uzbekistan; elite narratives; oral history; post-Soviet transformation; Central Asia Abstract This article examines everyday life at the edge of…

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Sindh

Partition, mobility, and identity transformation among Sindhi Hindu migrants

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2026-01(26).05 Author: Maya Khemlani David Affiliation: Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Email: mayadavid@yahoo.com Author: Ameer Ali Affiliation: English Department, Government Arts & Commerce College Larkano, Sindh, Pakistan Email: ameer7037@gmail.com Language: English Issue: 1/2026 (26) Pages: 95–111 (17 pages) Keywords: diaspora, mobility, identity transformation, intergenerational memory, Sindhi Hindus Abstract This article…

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Concerned about Purity and Power: The Zionist Churches in Southern Africa

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2025-02(25).01 Author: Christoffer H. Grundmann Affiliation: Vöchtingstr. 31, D – 72076 Tübingen, Germany Email: Christoffer.Grundmann@valpo.edu Language: English Issue: 2/2025 (25) Pages: 3–27 (25 pages) Keywords: African Indigenous Churches (AICs), Zionist Churches, Prophet-Healer movements, Faith healing, Christianity, Southern Africa, Ritual practice, Religion and medicine, Intercultural theology Abstract The emergence of African Indigenous Churches (AICs) in…

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The Carpatho Rusyns in Serbia and Eastern Europe and the Ukrainian Crisis

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2025-02(25).02 Author: Marc Stegherr Affiliation: Institute for Slavic Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany Email: marcstegherr@hotmail.com Language: English Issue: 2/2025 (25) Pages: 28–40 (13 pages) Keywords: Carpatho-Rusyns, minority policy, Ukraine, Serbia, language standardization, autonomy and separatism, Russian influence, European integration Abstract This article explores the historical and contemporary position of the Carpatho-Rusyn…

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Exploring Croatian-American Cultural Identity and Participation

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2025-02(25).03 Author: Andrea R. Lee Affiliation: College of Education, Austin Peay State University, 601 College Street, Clarksville, TN 37044, USA Email: leea@apsu.edu Language: English Issue: 2/2025 (25) Pages: 41–63 (23 pages) Keywords: Croatian American, Croatian values, Croatian culture, cultural participation, cultural identity, ancestry, genealogy Abstract Cultural identity and participation play a critical role in…

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Cultural Memory on Tapa: Bark Cloth from the Uruwa Valley of Papua New Guinea

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2025-02(25).04 Author: Martin Soukup Affiliation: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Email: soukup@antropolog.cz Language: English Issue: 2/2025 (25) Pages: 64–82 (19 pages) Keywords: Painted Tapa, New Guinea, the Nungon People, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea Art, Bark Cloth, Cultural Memory Abstract This study explores the production and cultural significance of bark cloth…

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Between the University and the Monastery: The Ethiopian Church and the Transformation of Knowledge

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2025-02(25).05 Author: Asrat Tsegaw Affiliation: Church educators and itinerant scholars of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition, based in Lalibela, Ethiopia Author: Tilahun Tsegaye Affiliation: Church educators and itinerant scholars of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition, based in Lalibela, Ethiopia Language: English Issue: 2/2025 (25) Pages: 83–103 (21 pages) Keywords: Ethiopia, Orthodox Church, ʾAbənnat Təmhərt,…

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