www.ijstr.org Epos Is An Ethnic Source

• Main Authors: Tynysbek Kongyratbay, Abdikarim Kamak, Kalzhan Kongyratbay
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Index Terms; musical folklore; epos; hermeneutic; ethnos; ethnic process; historical point; typology; diachronical; synchronical; ethnopedagogy; Sakha; Tuva
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.641.3119; http://www.ijstr.org/final-print/july2014/Epos-Is-An-Ethnic-Source.pdf

Abstract: If eposes in folklore science are searched as literary in XX century hermeneutic method is used to search its ethnic information. Epic poems of world people as ―Odyssey‖, ―Iliada‖, ―Makhabkharata‖, ―Manas ‖ have been searching historically in different levels. But in soviet period folklore was searched according to the typological analysis and limited defining literary similiarities of the following nationalities eposes as Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijan, Turkmen, Tajik, Karakalpak and Khakas, Tuva, Sakha in Altay. Rightly the eposes ’ such as ―Korkyt ata kitaby‖, ―Koruglu‖, ―Kobylandy‖, ―Alpamys‖, ―Geser‖, ―Zhangar ‖ historical-ethnical characteristics are clear. In these eposes ethnos names are saved, their historical activities are described with literary language. This article deals with the problem of searching eposes of Turkic people according to hermeneutic method and the aim is to define their ethnical characteristics. Different research methods and methodological basis are considered.