ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the insider and outsider gazes within current tourism theory by focusing on the area of Tamgaly in Kazakhstan, a tourism site known for its Neolithic petroglyphs. The symbols of Tamgaly do currently represent the national identity of a majority of the population, an identity that was suppressed, and thereby they provide a reconnection to the Neolithic past of Kazakhstan. But what these symbols will mean for future generations of Kazakhs may be very different as this multi-national population evolves. The landscape of Tamglay, with its Neolithic petroglyphs, is a common site of heritage tourism for the country of Kazakhstan. The interaction between present-day Kazakh Muslims and Tamgaly through pilgrimage has been further examined by Lymer, who focuses on the 'cultural and socio-political' dynamics of the practice of 'tying rags on branches and other amenable surfaces at special places and sacred sites in the landscape'.
