THE LETTERS OF KHALEL ARGYNBAYEV AS AN OBJECT OF ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Abstract

Abstract. The article summarizes the basic information about the scientific activities of the great Kazakh scientist-ethnographer Khalel Argynbayev, including scientific works devoted to the study of the history and culture of the Kazakh people, as well as his letters written by him in the 90s of the twentieth century in response to a written appeal from a group of scientific and creative intelligentsia of the Pavlodar region asking for help in scientific and methodological (theoretical) support and practical implementation of the forms of folk applied art of the Kazakh people. The scientists were given answers to many questions, as well as valuable advice on the organization of scientific and practical ethnographic research, postal parcels with author's works, etc. The few letters of the scientist that have survived, which have become part of his epistolary legacy, are still of great importance today in the study of his creative and scientific heritage.

The research is aimed at popularizing the contribution of H. Argynbayev to the formation and development of ethnographic science in Kazakhstan, as well as demonstrating biographical and factual data about the scientist, reflecting his contribution to the development of applied ethnography, the history of Kazakhstan.