Early Specimens of Pashto Folklore. / Pelevin, Mikhail.
Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In Honour of Garnik Asatrian. ed. / Uwe Blasing; Victoria Arakelova; Matthias Weinreich. Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2015. p. 479-494.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in an anthology › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Early Specimens of Pashto Folklore
AU - Pelevin, Mikhail
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The article examines the early Pashto folklore texts included in The Khatak Chronicle which is the original part of the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (The Ornamented History) by the Pashtun tribal ruler Afḍal Khān Khatak (d. circa 1740/41). Among these texts are few Pashto proverbs (matal) used as expressive stylistic means to answer various didactical purposes, a distich landǝy representing a fragment of an improvised battlefield song, two short anecdotes demonstrating how an allegorical story may have been a halfway towards pithy wise saying, and four genealogical legends, each having roots in Pashto oral tradition in contrast to those bookish accounts which fabricated the “Biblical” origins of the Pashtuns. Literary material collected and analyzed in the article may both contribute to the ethnological studies of the Pashtun tribes in pre-moderntimes and prove the fact that the earliest recorded specimens of Pashto folklore should be traced in the works of Pashtun literati written long before the first European researches on the subject were published in the second half of the XIX century.
AB - The article examines the early Pashto folklore texts included in The Khatak Chronicle which is the original part of the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (The Ornamented History) by the Pashtun tribal ruler Afḍal Khān Khatak (d. circa 1740/41). Among these texts are few Pashto proverbs (matal) used as expressive stylistic means to answer various didactical purposes, a distich landǝy representing a fragment of an improvised battlefield song, two short anecdotes demonstrating how an allegorical story may have been a halfway towards pithy wise saying, and four genealogical legends, each having roots in Pashto oral tradition in contrast to those bookish accounts which fabricated the “Biblical” origins of the Pashtuns. Literary material collected and analyzed in the article may both contribute to the ethnological studies of the Pashtun tribes in pre-moderntimes and prove the fact that the earliest recorded specimens of Pashto folklore should be traced in the works of Pashtun literati written long before the first European researches on the subject were published in the second half of the XIX century.
KW - Pashto Folklore and Literature, Proverbs, Popular Verses, Fables, Genealogies, Pashtun Tribes in Pre-modern Times
UR - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004302068
U2 - 10.1163/9789004302068
DO - 10.1163/9789004302068
M3 - Article in an anthology
SN - 978-90-04-30201-3
SP - 479
EP - 494
BT - Studies on Iran and the Caucasus
A2 - Blasing, Uwe
A2 - Arakelova, Victoria
A2 - Weinreich, Matthias
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden; Boston
ER -
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