ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECT AND CULTURAL SIMILARITY OF KAZAKH AND HAZARAS

Abstract

The history of Hazara’s nation in Afghanistan is fragmented and without a reliable historical source and archeological evidence. Due to the limited and superficiality of the studied materials, the literatures that are published about the history of the Hazaras nation until now, consensus and common tendency among historians and authors have seen too little. It seems very difficult and even impossible which how did Hazara nation reach their current historical position and identity? The scientific, logical and satisfying answer to this question is the study of the historical – cultural similarities of the Hazara’s nation with Turkic nations in Central Asia and also genetic studies; especially the Kazakh nation. Still now researches that have continued to focus on the history and culture of the Hazara’s nation in Afghanistan have been based on historical quotations, direct and indirect observations of the Hazara’s community and their social life. The comparison and analysis of the cultural, linguistic and anthropological type of the Hazara nation in Afghanistan with the Kazakh nation is a scientific and effective steps which opens up the new window to the ambiguity in the dimensions of Hazara’s identity.