Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture

McGuire G.V.
June 2022 American Folklore Society

Journal of American Folklore
2022 #135 Issue 537 281 - 304 pp.

This paper traces the path of Motif K111.1, Alleged gold-dropping animal sold, through a series of tales in which the trickster Aldar Köse works his way to wealth through ruses that exploit the norms and institutions of mobile pastoral production. Comparison of the motif across eras reveals the ways in which a trickster figure who embodied a disorderly anarchy of appetite was improbably reborn as an apostle of order. Copyright

AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus: Trickster tales , class conflict , diachronic analysis , morphological analysis , motifs , peonage , political ideology

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Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

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