the experience of publishing the volumes of «Monuments of Folklore
of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East»
The paper considers the integrated approach to the publication and study of folklore used
in the bilingual academic series «Monuments of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far
East». Given the syncretic nature of folklore, the necessity of this approach is proved.
As an example, the epos genre is chosen, being the most complex and including the greatest
number of versatile aspects, such as textual, linguistic, ethnographic, musical, physiological, choreographic
ones.
The author studies scientific articles in the volumes of a Series containing epics of Yakuts,
Altaians, Tuvinians, Buryats, Russians, Khakas, Dolgans, Shors, Nenets. The analysis is given
of the poetic structure of an epic – traditional poetic formulas, epithets, hyperboles and others
means of expression and also compositions, subject lines and the system of characters. It reveals
the basic principles of the translation of folklore texts into Russian which allow reaching the required
adequacy of the translation.
Also, the paper deals with the linguistic aspect of preparation and edition of the volumes
of the Series including the main typological characteristics of concrete language and dialect
groups existing within it, and (if necessary) a problem of its status as an independent language.
In addition, the ethnographic component is demonstrated that is present in each volume concerning
ethnogenesis of the people, its ethnocultural contacts, material and spiritual culture that have
received reflection in his folklore heritage. Besides the text description and the analysis, the ethnographic
component also contains photo illustrations to each volume.
Special attention is paid to the ethnomusicological analysis of a musical component of the epics
included in volumes of a Series. The basic principles of preparing of the musicological section
including the scientific article with the analysis of tunes – their melodic, rhythmical structure,
musical composition and also a notation of the published epics and the supplement with audio
recordings are listed. The author shows that the analysis of the Altai throat singing kai includes
both musicological and physiological aspects. The choreographic component of studying of epics
consisting of the analysis of the Dolgan dances in the volume «Folklore of Dolgans» is also considered.
The author comes to a conclusion that it is the integrated approach and use of the greatest
possible number of related scientific disciplines that allows one to obtain a reliable scientific
source for the future research.
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the experience of publishing the volumes of «Monuments of Folklore
of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East» // Сибирский филологический журнал. 2017. № 4. Pp. 18–26. DOI: 10.17223/18137083/61/2.