The Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events was firstly created in 1982 as an ethnography department and worked until 1998. In 1998-2004 it was renamed as the department of Arystanbab and Ethnography. Since January 2005 it was transformed into ethnography department and lasted until 2018.
In 2018, it was renamed to the Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events and continues working on a regular basis. Nowadays the Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events department includes the head of the department Zhumashova A.A, 2 senior researchers, 3 researchers, 2 research assistants.
They work according to the approved plan. The Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events is engaged in scientific-research, collection, storage, scientific expedition, scientific research, scientific exposition, scientific publishing works and etc.
Employees of the department are also engaged in writing scientific works, promoting them to the public, participate in scientific field expeditions, business trips and collect exhibits on the basis of ethnographic data. The Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events conducts the scientific research of sources about traditions, applied art, life, crafts, material monuments and spiritual heritage of the Kazakh people.
The Department of Ethnography, Literature and Cultural-public events for the purpose of scientific research, collects the precious heritage of the past, examines the current state of the local population, conducts propaganda of historical and cultural monuments, traditions and performs the following works: