Kyrgyz Genealogies and Lineages: Histories, Everyday Life and Patriarchal Institutions in Northwestern Kyrgyzstan

Light, Nathan

doi:10.3390/genealogy2040053

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“…Second, the two poets represent two different regions and ancestral groups, and should demonstrate an extensive knowledge of genealogy and lineage histories. The recitation of genealogy across Central Asian cultures more broadly is itself a form of oral tradition, a means of self‐identification, political alliance, cultural memory, and historical record (Jacquesson 2016; Light 2018; Salimjan 2021; Yessenova 2005). In the Birzhan‐Sara aitys, several hundred lines are devoted to naming and describing particular ancestors of note; their impressive recitation in front of a live audience would also be a form of information sharing for those present, a way of keeping these ancestors’ names and accomplishments alive in a shared cultural history, as seen in Figure 1.…”

Section: The Historical Aitys Of Birzhan Sal and Sara Qyzmentioning

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Mapping Participant Frameworks in the Aitys of Birzhan and Sara

Dubuisson

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Here the lens of the "mapping problem" described by Judith Irvine in participant framework studies is used to analyze shifts in the cultural tale "The Aitys of Birzhan and Sara" from its origin as an improvisational verbal duel in the late 19th century, to a Kazakh socialist opera during the Soviet period, to a nationalized historical reference in Kazakhstan. During the multiple recontextualizations of that social text, its discursive pragmatics and characters are preserved within the expanding and shifting participant frameworks enabled by the genre of aitys poetry. Birzhan and Sara are able to "speak"-as poets, characters, and ancestors-to a changing series of audiences, all of whom become involved and implicated in their words and story as a result. They-like all aitys poets and the tradition itself-become a source of cultural authority. Thus the mapping of this social text over time is used as an example, in order to explain why and how an oral tradition is able to overcome or absorb even serious intertextual gaps resulting from shifting historical and political contexts over a long twentieth century. [discourse pragmatics, nationalization of culture, oral tradition, participant framework mapping, recontextualization] «Meнi дe «ұpпaғым» дeп, ecкe aл, жұpтым Capaның aйтapы ocы aттaнapдa» "Remember me too as your descendant, my people This is what Sara wants to say, before (I) go." -Sara Tastanbekqyzy Introduction: The Aitys of Birzhan Sal and Sara Qyz In the late 19 th century, a young Qazaq woman named Sara Tastanbekqyzy became famous among Qazaqs in Central Asia when she performed in a verbal duel against one of the most well-known bards of her time, Birzhan sal. 1 Their reported battle in 1871-part of the poetic tradition aitys, where lines are at least partially improvised, sung, and accompanied by the music of the stringed wooden instrument dombyra 2 -was purportedly memorized by members of their audience at the time, and transmitted through oral memory for years, until it was written down for the first time in 1898 by a young poet and collector of oral literature, Zh€ usipbek Shaykhislamuly. 3 Their meeting is notable not just for Sara's participation or for Birzhan's fame, but also because of the specific content that was discussed: Sara

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Section: The Historical Aitys Of Birzhan Sal and Sara Qyzmentioning

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Mapping Participant Frameworks in the Aitys of Birzhan and Sara

Dubuisson

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (Zhumaliev, 2013). Activities of the Kyrgyz epic hero Manas in the Talas region were narrated more than 1000 years ago (Light, 2018). Epic of Manas is the globe incomparably great saga.…”

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Teaching of the Theme “Manas and Manastelling Skill” by Critical Thinking Method Strategies

Tolonova¹,

Borubekova²,

Ukueva³

et al. 2020

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This article is investigating the critical thinking method in the teaching of the theme "Manas and manastelling skill" by zigzag strategy. For the setting of the critical thinking tasks during teaching, various questions about four different texts were analyzed by students using the Venn diagram, cinquain, cluster, and crossword strategies. This method is recommended for teaching and the object recognition of the theme "Manas and manastelling skill" in the education process. In this work, students have tested practically an approach for an independent understanding of the theme and its interpretation to each other. Students were able to develop their organizational skills, ability to work individually, in pairs, and in groups.

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Women’s Rights in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: In the Grip of Conservative Re-traditionalisation and Neoliberal Capitalism

Zhussipbek,

Nagayeva

2023

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Kyrgyz Genealogies and Lineages: Histories, Everyday Life and Patriarchal Institutions in Northwestern Kyrgyzstan

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Mapping Participant Frameworks in the Aitys of Birzhan and Sara

Mapping Participant Frameworks in the Aitys of Birzhan and Sara

Teaching of the Theme “Manas and Manastelling Skill” by Critical Thinking Method Strategies

Women’s Rights in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: In the Grip of Conservative Re-traditionalisation and Neoliberal Capitalism

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