On Thursday, the 11th of August, Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva, Aibek Samakov and I started our trip to Batken oblast. At 9 o clock in the morning our plane went off, for the 1 ½ hour- journey from Manas airport, Bishkek, to Batken, the capital of Batken oblast, sited next to the Uzbek border. The first impressions, …
Short summary of summer events
Beginning of September was marked by completion of Aigine CRC’s summer seminars and field research trips. Summer sessions of the seminar on Manas epic and Nurak Abdrakhmanov’s En Belgi system for teachers, were conducted on the shore of the Issyk-Kul Lake and mountains of Karakol. The summer sessions of the aforementioned seminars were aimed at transmitting information through live …
Open discussion: How does the “non-traditional” version of Manas written by a woman correlate with the “traditional” oral version of males?
Date: March 5 2011Place: Aigine CRCWorking language: Kyrgyz The goal of the meeting was to identify main differences between the “non-traditional” version of the epic from Jaisan’s spirit written down by a woman and the traditional oral version of male narrators which takes its beginning from Yraman Yrchy uulu. The open discussion was conducted in the framework …
Closed discussion: Diversity of the Manas Phenomenon
Place: Aigine CRCDate and time: January 21 2010Working language: Kyrgyz The main goal of the meeting was to discuss new version of the Manas epic and bring together male narrators of the epic with Bubu Mairiam Musa Kyzy, a woman who brought to light a new version of the Manas epic. The new version of the epic under the …