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DOI: 10.23671/VNC.2020.74.58010
PERSONALITY IN LOCAL CULTURAL TRADITION: STEREOTYPICAL STORIES ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE IN FOLKLORE OF THE CIRCASSIAN DIASPORA IN TURKEY.
Pashtova, Madina M.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 35 (74).
Abstract:
The Circassian (Adyg) diaspora of Turkey, dispersed in all regions of the country, originated
due to the famous historical events of the mid-XIXth century – the end of the Caucasian War and
the deportation of the main part of the indigenous population of the North-West Caucasus to the
territory of the Ottoman Empire. During the half-year period of existence, pulled away from the
historical territory, several large centers of Circassian culture were formed here. One of them, the
Uzun-Yayla enclave, is located in Central Anatolia, near Kayseri. This study is based on the material
collected by the author in this and other areas of Turkey during folklore-ethnographic expeditions
(2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018) during in-depth interviews, audio and video recording and making
notes in the field diary, as well as by the method of included observation (2018-2019). These are
oral stories about outstanding people (memorates, anecdotes, parables), which are one of the most
productive folklore-genre creative forms in the local repertoire of Uzun-Yayla. The subject of the
study is the nature of existence and pragmatics of narrative texts about well-known personalities in
the context of the local tradition. The possibility and necessity of studying stereotypical oral stories
begotten around the names of famous personalities as a source of cultural knowledge are of particular
relevance in the light of the problems of such areas of scientific thought as localistics and regional
studies. In the proposed aspect, the folklore of the Circassian diaspora is considered for the first time.
The purpose of the study is to reveal through the material of the selected texts how the images of
heroes of the historical past, and recent outstanding people are folklorized, as well as to identify the
main thematic groups of the oral texts under study, their pragmatic and communicative functions.
It is concluded that in the absence of writing in the native language and official means of internal
communication, cycles of stories about well-known personalities act in the space of the enclave under
study as tools of social regulation and structuring of local knowledge, one of the markers of social
group identity of the diaspora Circassians.
Keywords: local text, famous person, Circassians, diaspora, Uzun-Yayla.
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