Article

Name: Genre Specificity of Shamanic Narratives in the Folklore Tradition of Tuvans

Authors: Zhanna M. Yusha

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract: Genre features and structure of shamanic narratives existing in Tuvan folklore are analyzed. Two types of stories have been identified in the performing tradition – from the ritual specialist and the bearer of the tradition. The mythological picture in both types of stories complement each other, in them the general narrative model characteristic of shamanic narratives is preserved. It is revealed that shamanic narratives combine features of various genres of non-narrative prose: oral narrative, myth and mythological narrative, legend and legend, which indicates the archaic syncretism of folklore consciousness. In the structure of shamanic narratives, the differentiating features characteristic of a particular genre of non-narrative prose are described in detail and described. In shamanic narratives, the presence of shamanic algysh-chants is revealed; their pragmatic functions are determined; their thematic diversity is revealed.

Keywords: Tuvan shamanism, Tuvan folklore, shamanic narrative, narrative text structure, shamanic chant-algysh, inter-genre relationships

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