Abstract
The article pays special attention to the traditions of the exchange of gifts in family and marriage relations of the peoples of Central Asia, including the role of kalym and dowry. The authors showed the general similarity and differences in the exchange of gifts among the Kazakhs and the peoples of Central Asia. In the course of applying the comparative method, the works of researchers of the 19th-early 20th centuries were taken as a basis. The article deals in detail with the origin of the concept of "kalym," its composition, features of kalym among Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and other peoples.Kalym, as well as the obligation of parents to give the girl a dowry, important customs that have survived to this day. Despite the fact that today traditions are being transformed, the ethnic groups under consideration are based on common values. Analysis of common ties in the system of exchange of gifts among Turkic peoples inhabiting Central Asia is considered as an urgent problem of modern social sciences. It also allows you to study the culture of the autochthonous peoples of this region on the basis of general principles.
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