Казахское шежире как фольклорная категория исторических источников

Kazakh shezhire as a folklore category of historical sources

Abstract

This is an analysis of shezire as a special folklore category of historical sources. Paradigmatic development of story, structural symbolic, composition situational context, conventionality, variability of the plotline of shezhire are a basis for its scientific identification as a special genre category of folklore. Shezhire is a mainstream of oral historiographic tradition of Kazakhs peoples. The main role of shezhire is a genealogic interpretation of ethnogeny and ethnic history of the people in terms and principles of ancestral and tribal relationship. This is why there is a necessity of adequate scientific approach to shezhire as a folklore genre.