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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
N.F. Katanov's difficult, arduous folkloristic collection is of special value in literary studies and cognitive aspects in his extensive scienti?c, pedagogic, enlightening and social activity. Recorded and processed by an outstanding Khakass scholar, folklore texts are not only keepers and translators of the Turkic peoples' spiritual culture but they also accumulate creative work of Khakass poets and novelists. For example V. K. Tatarova (1952), a Khakass poet and novelist, distinguished public figure and famous theorist of Katanov studies wrote parables/ book of poems Cowberry on a palm in 1995 on the basis of materials of an ethnographic expedition around the Minusinsk depression carried out by N. F. Katanov in 1889-1892. It should be noted that "... in the sphere of the Turkic-speaking habitation of Siberia and Eastern Turkestan a researcher managed to collect a great linguistic, ethnographic and folklore material" which today is of
cognitive value as a collection of Turkic fairytales, fables, songs, proverbs and sayings. "Folklore materials were published in the IX volume of Folk literature samples of the Turkic tribes (St. Petersburgh, 1907) where folklore pieces of work of the Uryankhais (1,410 names), Khakasses (1,159 names), Karagases (203 names) were included"?
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