Asanbek Daniyarov

Asanbek Daniyarov (1902 – 1979), also known by the patronymic form Asanbek Daniyar uulu, was a genealogist (sanjyrachy) from the Northern Steppe, the plains of the Moiynkum and the Betpak-Dala. He memorized the oral genealogies (sanjyra) of the steppe clans, tracing some lines over twenty generations.^[1] In the 1960s and 1970s he dictated more than 3,000 lines of genealogy to researchers from Talas State University, including Zheenbek Sadykov. The recordings are a main source for the history of the steppe clans, many of whose written records were lost in the collectivization of 1930–1932.^[2]

References

1. ^ Sadykov, Zheenbek (1994). Genealogies of the Iradi Clans. Revised edition. Talas: Talas State University Press, vol. 1, pp. 9–14.
2. ^ Talas State University Press (2018). Clan and Kurultai: Governance in the Autonomous Tribal Regions. Talas.