WORDS OF ANCESTORS – MASTERPIECES OF KAZAKH WORD ART

Abstract

The article highlights the issues of scientific preparation and publication of the 100- volumes of Kazakh folklore "Word ancestors", published in the period 2004-2013, including issues of genre classification of folklore texts, principles of selection and preparation of each volume, as well as the place of this priceless spiritual heritage in the world’s culture. Kazakh folklore – is a syncretic literary art, originating from ancient times and representing folk art-aesthetic, philosophical, moral and ethical outlook. In recent years, scientific editions of folk literature, publications for children and a wide range of readers have been published, that had been collected from numerous handwritten patterns of folklore creativity which is an invaluable spiritual heritage people. At the same time we should mention that folklore collections published in the 90th - early 2000 s, covered only a small part of the rich folk heritage of Kazakhs. One of the main reasons for this was the pro-communist ideology of the Soviet political system that prevented from the development of national cultures. For this reason, hundreds of folklore religious works, works with the sence of some ethnic patriotism, freedom and independence have not been included into scientific turn over and library circulation. However those works that have been published in the Soviet period, underwent censorship and abbreviations. The main purpose of the publication was the idea of demonstrating not only the richness of Kazakh folk literature, but also implementation of publication in accordance with modern requirements of philological science, also it was important to visibly show the antiquity of the origin of national culture.