Research Article

An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival

Number: 91 October 22, 2019
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An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival

Abstract

Karakalpaks furnished some of their traditions with the rites that praise and demand fertility for their women and earth, that convey the society’s acknowledgement of the integration of death and birth, and that depict the importance of threshold. Mikhail Bakhtin’s observation of the carnival and the grotesque reveals similar concepts: fertility, juxtaposition of death and birth and the idea of threshold. This article draws an analogy between some of Karakalpak rites and Bakhtin’s carnival in terms of these three concepts. It concludes that Karakalpak traditions and rites, as well as carnival as discussed by Bakhtin, were formulated as a consequence of the society’s infallible unity which was firmly subordinated to the privilege of people’s collaboration with nature and their negation of the absolute one-sided truth and certainty.

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 22, 2019

Submission Date

August 29, 2018

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2019 Number: 91

APA
Yılmaz, V. B., & Kamalova, R. (2019). An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig, 91, 217-234. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.9109
AMA
1.Yılmaz VB, Kamalova R. An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig. 2019;(91):217-234. doi:10.12995/bilig.9109
Chicago
Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge, and Raushan Kamalova. 2019. “An Analogy Between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival”. Bilig, nos. 91: 217-34. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.9109.
EndNote
Yılmaz VB, Kamalova R (October 1, 2019) An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig 91 217–234.
IEEE
[1]V. B. Yılmaz and R. Kamalova, “An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival”, Bilig, no. 91, pp. 217–234, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.12995/bilig.9109.
ISNAD
Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge - Kamalova, Raushan. “An Analogy Between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival”. Bilig. 91 (October 1, 2019): 217-234. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.9109.
JAMA
1.Yılmaz VB, Kamalova R. An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig. 2019;:217–234.
MLA
Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge, and Raushan Kamalova. “An Analogy Between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival”. Bilig, no. 91, Oct. 2019, pp. 217-34, doi:10.12995/bilig.9109.
Vancouver
1.Victoria Bilge Yılmaz, Raushan Kamalova. An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig. 2019 Oct. 1;(91):217-34. doi:10.12995/bilig.9109

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