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Gabriel McGuire holds a BA in Anthropology from Whitman College (2002) and an MA (2007) and Ph.D. (2013) from the department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. His dissertation, based on a year of field work in the south of Kazakhstan, described the revival of small-holder mobile pastoral practices in one village.
His current research interests include the depictions of mobile pastoral lifeways in Soviet era Kazakh language short stories and novels, the relationship between genres of oral and written Kazakh literature, the intellectual history of literary genres in Kazakh letters, and Kazakh oral epics and folkales. He is a co-editor of Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Indiana University Bloomington
Dec 2007 → May 2013
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The Bukhtarma River Survey- Institute for Advanced Studies at Nazarbayev University (IAS)
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[review of] Hodgkin, Samuel. Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
McGuire, G., 2025, In: Iranian Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Conspiracies and Cosmonauts: The Baikonur Cosmodrome and popular narratives of ecological disaster in contemporary Kazakhstan
McGuire, G., 2024, The Baikonur Cosmodrome and popular narratives of ecological disaster in contemporary Kazakhstan. Sharipova, D., Bissenova, A. & Burkhanov, A. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, (The Steppe and Beyond).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Introduction
McGuire, G., Nov 25 2024, Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature. Springer, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Oral literature
McGuire, G., Nov 25 2024, Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature. Springer, p. 11-100 90 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Dudar Qyz: Translation, Introduction, and Draft Analysis
McGuire, G., 2023, (Submitted).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper