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An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival

Karakalpak Adetleri ve Bakhtin’in Karnavalı Arasındaki Benzerlikler

Victoria Bilge Yılmaz, Raushan Kamalova

Journal
Bilig
Pages
217–234
Publication Date
2019-10-22
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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.

Özet

Karakalpakların bazı gelenek ve görenekleri, kadınların ve  toprağın verimliliği, toplumun ölüm ve yaşamı bir olarak kabul  etmesi ve eşik kavramının önemi ile ilgilidir. Mikhail Bakhtin’in  karnaval kavramını incelemesi sonucunda da benzer fikirler ortaya  çıkmaktadır: verimlilik, ölüm ve yaşamın bir arada oluşu ve eşik  kavramı. Bu makale Karakalpakların bazı gelenekleri ve Bakhtin’in  karnaval kavramı arasındaki benzerlikleri incelemektedir. Ayrıca,  hem Karakalpak adetlerinin hem de Bakhtin’in incelediği  karnavalın, insanların doğa ile olan beraberliğini ve onların  tek taraflı gerçeği ve kesinliği reddetmelerini temel olarak  gören toplumun ayrılmaz birlikteliğe dayandığının sonucuna  varmaktadır.

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Yılmaz, V. B., Kamalova, R. (2019). An Analogy between Karakalpak Rites and Bakhtin’s Carnival. Bilig, Sayı: 91 Özel Sayı, 217–234. https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.9109

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