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Trickster Traits in the Folklore Image of Mazan-Batyr [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2019 This paper focuses on one aspect of the image of Mazan-batyr, a popular hero of Kalmyk folklore. Kalmyk tales represent Mazan as a cunning hero, able to trick his opponent instead of using strength and martial skills.
Boris Yu. Sengleev
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The Concept Ger ‘Home’ in Linguistic Worldviews of Mongols
Монголоведение, 2022 Introduction. The article examines a basic concept of any linguistic worldview — that of home (Mong. ger). Goals. The study aims at identifying and revealing semantic features of the concept in folklore texts of Mongolic peoples — Buryat, Kalmyk, and ...
Sesegma D. Gympilova, Bair Ts. Gomboev
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How to Defeat a Demon: The Function of the Oirat Folk Narrative about Burning the Female Devil [PDF]
, 2023 The paper introduces the results of a case study that attempts to uncover the functions and probable genesis of a group of satirical tales told by the Mongolian peoples. Based on the example of one of the stories, about Argachi, a Til ...
Nosov, Dmitrii Alekseevich
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The Spider in the Folklore Traditions of the Kalmyks
Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2016 The multi-genre Kalmyk folklore has incorporated a complex system of symbols that reflect the national distinctness and peculiarities of Kalmyk culture. In the present article, the author studies the image of the spider that has several denominations in the Kalmyk vocabulary: araaljin - the cross spider that lives in a house and the web it weaves is ...
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About Some Plot Types of Xinjiang Khoshut Magic Tales
Научный диалог, 2020 The classification and systematization of some magic tales of the Khoshuts of the Xinjiang-Uigur Autonomous Region of China for the first time is presented on the basis of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther catalog and the “Comparative Index of Plots: East Slavic ...
B. Kh. Borlykova, B. V. Menyaev
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Translation Problems of Minor Kalmyk Folklore Genres: An Insight into Materials of Ivan I. Popov
Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук, 2021 Introduction. Proverbs and sayings are a genre of oral creativity that transmits the knowledge and experience of many generations. Paroemias are of practical importance for an individual as a member of society endowed with social roles and living by certain rules. The proverbs of the Don Kalmyks recorded by Ivan I.
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Plot Body of the Kalmyk Fairytale
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article is devoted to the plot body of the Kalmyk fairy-tales. The analysis has shown that there are international and local plots in the Kalmyk folklore tradition.
Irina Nadbitova
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Монголоведение, 2018 The article examines the image of the horse depicted in a number of archival materials. Being a thinking being, the horse has always been of interest to both Russian and foreign scholars. And it is definitely integral to the Kalmyk nomadic culture.
I. Boldyreva
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Peculiarities of Alliteration in Kalmyk Folk Songs (Analysis of Records Made at Different Times) [PDF]
, 2018 Poetics of folk songs reflects the history and context of the artistic phenomena of the Kalmyk people at different stages of its development. It served the basis and determined the essence of national identity, aesthetic criteria and priorities ...
B. M. Kovaeva
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The production growth, industrial revolution, expansion of external and internal economic relations and prevalence of rationalizing attitudes contributed to the further development of scientific thought in the 19th century, collection of field data ...
B. V. Kogdanova
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