Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
| Created: | 2014-11-08 16:45 |
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| Institution: | Department of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Description: | Kalmyk moral tales are short stories of an educational nature that draw on traditional moral values and beliefs. As a rule, these tales are an elaboration of the allegorical meanings of certain portrayals, events or observations. The characters and events in these moral tales are not factual, but are invented. Often such tales do not have a single unified theme, as they may begin with one story line but finish with a completely different one. Although considered to be in danger of becoming extinct, this particular genre, has neither been researched nor documented by Kalmykologists.
In Kalmyk studies there is a convention not to identify satirical stories as a separate genre. As a general rule, such stories are frequently presented in the form of fairy tales and anecdotes. Kalmyk anecdotes are short stories with unexpected and cleverly thought out endings. Anecdotes usually recount humorous or extraordinary events, either fictitious or actual. Among the themes covered by these stories, Kalmyk anecdotes often caricature Kalmyk ethnic groupings, such as the Buzava, the Derbet, the Torgut, and the Hoshud. Such anecdotes also frequently poke fun at common human weaknesses, such as laziness, stupidity, greed, etc. |
Media items
This collection contains 12 media items.
Media items
Bembya Fedorov, Anecdotes
Anecdote One. Three groups of people are in Hell, namely Russians, Caucasians, and Kalmyks. To boil the sinners, the devils prepare three large cooking pots. Buddha gives the...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 30 Jan 2017
Boris Boktaev, Satirical Stories
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 22 May 2015
Galina Goryaeva, Anecdotes
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 9 May 2015
Galina Mandzhieva, Anecdotes
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 14 Jun 2015
Ivan Modunkaev, Anecdotes
Ivan recounts 5 anecdotes.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 14 Jun 2015
Maria Pozharova, An Anecdote
A Torghut girl gets married to a Derbet man. The bride’s father bemoans the future diet of his daughter: ‘My daughter grew up on tender fish meat, now how is she going to eat that...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 11 Jun 2019
Nadezhda Kadzhaeva, Seven Stories
Nadezhda recounts 7 stories, namely ‘Buynta’, ‘Vajrapani’, ‘The wild apple tree’, ‘Kotla’, ‘Okn Tengri’, ‘My aunt Elzyata’ and ‘The tyavlgn tree’.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 5 May 2019
Nikolai Sandzhiev, Comic Stories
Nikolai recounts two comic stories about two elderly men from his village.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 18 Nov 2018
Nina Sharapova, Anecdotes
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 1 Jan 2020
Telo Tulku Rinpoche, An Anecdote
There were a Buddhist, a Jew, a Muslim and a Christian who very good friends. One day they decided to go out and enjoy themselves. They started talking about their beliefs, gods...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 12 Mar 2017
Vladimir Karuev, Erdni Galaev and His Tales
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 20 Mar 2018
Yuriy IIyanov, Kalmyk Erotic Anecdotes
Yuriy recounts two erotic anecdotes: (1) The monk and the girl and (2) the shoes and the cock.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (MORAL TALES, SATIRICAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 14 Mar 2019