NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLES OF YAKUTIA IN THE SIBERIAN FOLKLORE SERIES

Abstract

The article analyzes the academic and publishing experience obtained during the work on the published volumes of folklore of the peoples of Yakutia as a part of the academic series “Monuments of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East”. The purpose of the article is to define the importance of the series as an integrated interdisciplinary project undertaken to further develop the edification practice in Siberian science as a project offering the most optimal, comprehensively productive approach in the publication of folklore material with a demonstration of the living existence of Siberian folklore.

With the use of descriptive and comparative methods, the author sets top-priority tasks related to the need to actively fix the phenomena of traditional culture. In the face of the threat of a complete loss of language and folklore, which leads to the disappearance of the spiritual heritage of the Siberian peoples, the urgency of academic reflection and the search for ways to preserve traditional values ​is growing. The main result of the study is the author’s conclusion that all the main principles developed in the series concerning the language of folk texts, the features of performing the folklore, the musical texture are observed in the volumes of folklore the peoples of the North. The tasks of folkloristic translation, which is aimed to preserve the artistic and poetic meaning of texts, are solved. The scientific reference system, comments to the texts perform the functions assigned to them, explaining the national-specific realities. The panoramic demonstration of folklore of different nations presented in unified parameters and united by common requirements for the publication of the material from the viewpoint of multipurpose and interdisciplinary character determined the scientific approaches and the level of modern publications. In addition, the classification of the material undertaken in the volume of the Yakut non-fairytale prose is important for the further development of the criteria for distinguishing between myths, legends and historical legends of other Siberian peoples.

The successful fulfillment of the volumes of folklore the northern peoples was the key to the further development of the series itself. It is oriented to the future. A fundamentally new type of large-scale publication is being implemented, which has no analogues in the world scientific and publishing practice. This is a reliable source base, its scientific value and potential being immeasurably increasing as most of folklore traditions disappear.

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