To mark this unique event will deal exclusively exposed parts of Kazakh culture, collected for over a century by eminent archaeologists, many of whom were Russian and some French, as Castagné Franz Joseph (1875-1958).
Far Asia, located between Russia and China, Kazakhstan inhabited for millennia, is now established in a territory where they have encountered civilizations of antiquity. Heir of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, the Kazakh people, despite the dominance of greed for wealth and hotly contested territories, has maintained its deep character.
Steeped in traditions based on a clan structure and reflections of the ancient nomadic traditions related to ethnic conditions, historical, and economic climate, the people jumper has adapted his lifestyle to his practice space, characteristic of a culture, a religion of a lifestyle.
Whenever you want to describe the Kazakhs, they escape again... The meeting with the country of extremes, yet is made possible by the exhibition at the Guimet Museum, through an approach intersecting archeology and ethnography. Two poles at both extremes and complementary, that make a lasting truth “nomad” in the heart of a dialogue inviting visitors to explore several avenues in the footsteps of these great horsemen from the steppes of Asia and their universe.
Built around the rites of nomadism, exposure Kazakhstan Men, beasts and gods of the steppe is a colorful show as a journey of initiation. The objects, showcasing the wealth of funerary practices Kazakh dialogue through silverware to register as many decorative evocations of landscapes and people seeking to enter into communion with the spirit of the steppe, to better capture.
Presenting alongside archaeological pieces, the photographic evidence, objects of daily life, all staged in a dynamic style and contemporary, the exhibition will understand and share the life “extreme” of nomadic horsemen.
