The problem of implementation of imperial veterinarian practices into the system of Kazakh animal husbandry: primary sources analyses

Abstract

The article analyzes the complex of collected sources to study the problem of the formation and
development of the veterinary service system in the Turgai region, as a colonial project, towards the
implementation of pragmatic goals. The sources represent workflow documents (deloproizvodstvennye
dokumenty), materials of statistical and research expeditions of the second half of the nineteenth
century, a number of scientific and publicistic publications, and scientific works of the conductors of
imperial politics, folklore and ethnographic sources, which are classified and divided into several groups.
Due to the systematization of sources, according to the type of production and inherent vision, they were
conditionally divided into two corpuses of different worldviews. Sources divided to the corresponding
principle were classified and developed for each group of sources general principles of work, and, depending
on the purpose, ideology and subject matter of the sources, were subdivided into types. The
systematization and classification of these types were supplemented by an analysis of semantic meanings,
genre specificity of sources, which study the reasons, patterns and their changes. Thus, in turn, will
allow, using new methods of source analysis, to comprehensively investigate the problem of the formation
and development of the veterinary service in the steppe, which brought about the transformation of
the traditional economy of the Kazakhs.
Key words: workflow documents (deloproizvodstvennye dokumenty), materials of expeditions, scientific
works, folklore, ethnographic sources, the system of veterinary service, transformation, Turgai
region.