Meditate

Practice

Stereotype

Train

Investigate

Material

Modern

Non material

Medieval

Ancient

Semi-nomadic

Distant

Semi-settled 

Horizontal

yaylak 

Signified

Myths

Symbols

Signifier

to adjust 

to improve

to cultivate

to spoil 

 to understand

Well rooted in the classical, Christian and Germanic

traditions

Something internal and reflects the inward nature of

man

Profoundly influenced by Confucian principles

Concerned with the external, mechanical and

utilitarian object

Mainly characterized as a synthesis of Tengrian

nomadic and Islamic and European element

Abai

Yusuf Balasagunsky

Khoja Akhmet Yassavi

al-Farabi

Mahmud al-Kashgari

Low

High

Elite

Behind

Upper