ETKİN GELENEĞİN TAŞIYICISI - ALTAYLARDAN BİR MASAL ANASI: MARİYA MİHAYLOVNA
ACTIVE PERFORMER OF TRADITION - A TALE MOTHER FROM THE ALTAIS: MARIA MİHAYLOVNA

Summary/Abstract: The Turkish narrative tradition has reached its peak intellectually in terms of narrative technique and ability to construct plots from the first ages of history to the present day. The cognitive level of Turks, which transforms the dialectical relationship that it has established with the universe into a possibility of expression for the narrator, has worked out the holistic and continual existence of the universe on a dynamic level through the narratives it has produced. In this regard, Altai Turks have also interpreted life through mythical narratives throughout the historical process and comprehended the dynamic dimension of the universe. Similarly, it can be said that each narrative contains the social and cultural dynamics of the society in which it is created. Therefore, narrators who enrich the narrative with style and fluidity, externalize the narratives with mythical referrals by constructing the narratives with their own techniques. The dialectical relationship between the narrator and the audience is also of great importance in creating the narratives in a certain performance setting. Mariya Mihaylovna, born in 1927, whom we met in the Ulagan jama of the Altai Autonomous Republic in 2012, within the scope of the project “Compilation and Recording of Oral Cultural Products in the Altai Autonomous Republic (Ulagan and Onguday Aymaks) of the Russian Federation”, has all the characteristics of the active tradition as a storyteller. In this study, Mariya Mikhailovna's fairy-tale performance technique will be examined and interpreted in the light of performance theory (in personal-social and verbal dimension).

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