Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule (original) (raw)

Two Performances of the “Return of Alpami”: Current Performance-Practice in the Uzbek Oral Epic

2015

The present study attempts to clarify the issues of text composition and poetic style within the Uzbek oral poetic genre known as the doston (dastan). It focuses on four short oral poetic texts: two recordings of two identical sections of the Alpami doston sung by a single bard (bäxi) in 1990 and in 1991. Due to the fact that researchers within Uzbekistan and other former Soviet republics of Central Asia have paid little attention to issues of “improvisation ” and “memorization, ” even such a modest attempt at multiple recording can help to state the relevant questions more clearly. A close analysis of the four texts demonstrates how the techniques of oral composition intersect with poetic style. This analysis is aided at times by interviews with and explanations from the bard. In addition, these interviews and observations of the bard and his immediate environment reveal aspects of the bäxi profession that he viewed as having significance.

MANKURTS OF ABISH AND AITMATOV: DESTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY OR LOSS OF SANITY? ABİŞ KEKİLBAYULI VE CENGİZ AYTMATOV'UN MANKURTLARI: MİLLÎ KİMLİK TAHRİBATI MI AKLISELİMİN YİTİMİ Mİ

Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022

Comparative literature is a discipline that studies the interactions, similarities, and differences between different works on a comparative basis. It is important to employ this perspective for examining the works of literature written within the scope of Turkic world, to identify common trends that emerged in certain periods and to draw conclusions by associating them with the general conditions of the period. Writers from the Turkic world, who benefited from partial relaxation after the pressure of socialist realism since the 1960s, have turned to narratives transmitted by oral culture such as legends and epics and adapted them to modern genres. The reinterpretation of oral folk narratives about mankurtization by two such authors, Abish Kekilbayuli and Chingiz Aitmatov, are noteworthy in this respect. Although both authors similarly describe the method of mankurtization, there are some differences in their positioning of this subject within the fictional integrity of the literary work and the purpose of fiction. In this study, the mankurt narratives in the povest 1 4 "Küy" and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years will be examined comparatively and the similarities and differences between the two works will be revealed. Thus, this paper will demonstrate how the same material has been differently constructed by different authors in terms of their intended messages.

A Contribution made by Shokan Ualikhanov to the History of Middle Ages in Central Asia Type (METHOT/APPROACH) Council for Innovative Research

AВSTRACT Shokan Ualikhanov is a scientist who made a huge contribution to the history of Central Asia. Shokan's works were not only known worldwide while he was alive but also were of great value to science these days. He was not only noticed by virtue of his special talent, knowledge, good observance and high intelligent skills and being an orientalist hopeful about the future among the highly-qualified Russian scientists but also on top of that he was the first Kazakh scientist who left a considerable mark on European science and culture. Followed by the outstanding Marko Polo, Shokan Ualikhanov's travel to Kashgar was the first brave deed by giving a many-sided discription of blind spots in Cetral Asia and introducing them to Europe. In this research Shokan Ualikhanov's contibution to the study of the history of Middle Ages in Cetral Asia was realized, his works in this field were analized. The research was carried out by comparing historic, many-sided analisis and combination, order and other scientific tutorial approaches on top. A great attention was paid to the worldwide developing science of biography. A scientic heritage of a person was analyzed, his contribution to science and art, while investigating, the development of the whole civilization was taken into consideration. Sh. Ualihanov widely put into practice different kinds of research methods, which are necessary now days too. For instance, Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison, нistorical research employs a number of methods and makes use of a wide range of source materials. These include oral sources in relation to the recent past, based on interviews in which respondents recall their own experiences as historical evidence. Nevertheless, analysis of documents has been the most characteristic and traditional method employed in modern historical research as distinct from social research. The established practices of working historians are therefore a key point of departure in addressing documentary research, although historians have tended not to reflect in detail or depth on this central aspect of their craft [1]. Also, you can not to write and to analyze information without the participant observation. As Harvey Russell Bernard said, more and more researches these days, across the social sciences, have learned what a powerful method powerful participant observation is it all stages of the research process. The method stands on its own, but it is also increasingly part of a mixed-method strategy, as researches combine qualitative data to answer questions of interest. The ethnography produced ideas for policy recommendations and for the content for the questionnaire. The questionnaire data illuminated and validated many of the things that the ethnographer learned during participant observation [2]. Shokan Ualikhanov was the first who established in the scientific circle a new type of historic data, oral folk traditions of Kazakh and Kirgiz people. Our research was mainly based on the works of Shokan Ualikhanov. Especially, Shokan Ualikhanov's works in the history of Central Asia were widely used in the research. These are: «Zhongar features», the legend «Manas», Sh. Ualikhanov's «Khan's orders» reviewed by Berezin I.N., «The remains of shamanism in Kazakhstan», «Kazakh genealogy», «Six spheres or Chinese province Nan-Lu (Small Bukhariya) about the life in six eastern towns between 1858 and 1859». Certainly, Shokan left works connected with the present time and we only worked by analyzing his works.