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‘’Manas’’ Destanındaki Etnonimler
Ethnonyms in the Epic Manas

Author(s): Kutbu Nadirbaeva Ozubekovna
Subject(s): Education, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture, Identity of Collectives
Published by: SD Yayınevi
Keywords: “Manas” epic; etnopedagogy; traditional education; new training methods; common ideology; discipline; national values; national wealth; personality; train; public names; ethnos; ethnic group;

Summary/Abstract: New technologies in globalized conditions, new methods of education emerged and thanks to them, young generation`s education and training are being done. That is to say that every nation knows that the aim is to preserve its own values and to teach and educate young generation with the right intentions. One of the national cultural wealth of the Kyrgyz people`s unique epic “Manas” protected as our famous inheritance for centuries. Our pedagogues must convey this historical, cultural and literary heritage and richness to the new generation. Kyrgyz nation had been persecuted before the birth of Manas. Kyrgyz people were expelled from Ala –too and dispered in the four sides of the Earth. Foretunately, Manas was born when Kyrgyz nation was in a difficult situation and in a fear of extinction. It`s not said for nothing in the famous epic Manas “Kulaaly taptap kush kyldym, kurama zhyiyp jurt kyldym”. Manas made these scattered people to be in a harmony and brought other nations to the Ala-too. It is possible to see many different public names and nationalities in the epic Manas. Manas gathered more than ten nations to form a people`s unity and willingness offering them freedom to live on their own. Clans such as: kypchak, teit, kytai, kalmak, mogol, kydyrsha, nogoi, zhediger, kazak, bagysh involved to Kyrgyz nation and lived under the same, unique goverment. İt means that Manas was the leader of this nation.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: S1
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish