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Information about Karakalpak folklore
Department name: Karakalpak folklore.
Head of Department: Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Kamalbay Sarsenbaevich Palymbetov.
Scientific potential of the department: The department employs 5 senior researchers (P. Uteniyazov, F. Maksetova, A. Bekbergenova, A. Kalenderova, A. Jarimbetov), and 6 basic doctoral students (G. Kabylova, Sh. Yakhieva, G. Kuralbaeva, F. Jiyemuratova, A. Sarsenbaeva, A. Eshmuratova).
Brief historical information about the department: In 1947, the Karakalpak Integrated Scientific Research Institute was established. In 1959, the Karakalpak branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR was established. A folklore section has begun operating within the branch. This sector was headed by K. Maksetov. Starting in 1959, the department conducted a series of works on the study of oral folk art. Its results are of great importance in the development of Karakalpak folkloristics. From 1959 to the present, the department’s scientific staff have organized folklore expeditions within the republic and abroad, during which they collected a number of examples of oral folk art, works, and other interesting materials. These materials constitute the main part of the manuscript fund of the fundamental library of the Karakalpak branch of the Academy of Sciences. All samples of Karakalpak folklore published in our republic were prepared for publication based on materials collected by the staff of the Karakalpak Folklore Department. Between 1977 and 1981, thanks to the active participation of the staff of the Karakalpak Folklore Department, 20 volumes of Karakalpak folklore samples were published. Between 2007 and 2025, 106 volumes of the multi-volume edition “Karakalpak Folklore” were published, and this work continues.
The sector (later the department) of Karakalpak folklore paid special attention to training qualified specialists. Scientists such as N. Daukarayev, K. Aimbetov, I. Sagitov, K. Maksetov, N. Zhapakov, A. Karimov, A. Alimov, K. Mambetnazarov, M. Nizamatdinov, N. Kamalov, S. Bakhadyrova, and J. Khoshniyazov are considered the most dedicated figures of science, holding the earliest scientific degrees and academic titles in Karakalpak folkloristics.
Main scientific directions of the department:
– Collecting, preparing for publication, and publishing works of Karakalpak folk prose, and their practical, scientific, and theoretical research;
– Collection, preparation, and publication of Karakalpak folk songs, their scientific-theoretical and practical study;
– Collecting, preparing for publication, and introducing into scientific circulation the repertoire and works of former and current Karakalpak storytellers;
– Preparation and publication of the multi-volume “Karakalpak Folklore” in accordance with its original versions, practical and scientific-theoretical study of these works, etc.
Foreign Relations of the Department: Currently, the department also has international relations. Researchers from the Karakalpak Folklore Department conduct research in close cooperation with scholars from Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the Kyrgyz Republic.
Scientific work carried out in the department: Currently, the department is conducting fundamental research on the topic “Karakalpak Folk Traditional Folklore,” designed for 2023-2026.
The main objectives of this study are:
Studying the traditions and customs of the Karakalpak, Uzbek, and Karakalpak peoples, as well as oral folk art.
– Collecting these peoples’ lullabies, national wedding songs, betashars, singsou, hawjars, and children’s folklore, collecting and comparatively studying sources related to these topics, etc.
Scientific results of the department:
Department staff successfully defended doctoral dissertations on their topics, publishing 106 volumes of the multi-volume edition “Karakalpak Folklore.” J. Khoshniyazov, K. Palymbetov defended doctoral dissertations (DSc), A. Bekimbetov, P. Oteniyazov, F. Maksetova, A. Kalenderova, A. Bekbergenova, A. Jarimbetov (PhD), and others.
Between 2016 and 2022, the department conducted the following thematic research works:
Within the framework of the Fund for Support of Fundamental Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Between 2016 and 2019, department staff conducted fundamental research on the topic “Research of the History of Karakalpak Folkloristics and Literary Studies.” Project Manager Z. Bekbergenova. Inv. No. 187474.
Between 2020 and 2022, department staff conducted fundamental research on the topic “Karakalpak Prose Folklore (Poetics of the Genre System, Genesis, Images, Plot, and Motifs).” Project Manager: J. Khoshniyazov. 198 p. InvNo189422
Conferences organized by the department: an overview of conferences held in 2024-2025. Brief information for the archive below 2024 must be provided.
In 2021, thanks to the active participation of department staff, an international scientific and practical conference titled “Scientific Heritage and Modernity: Concepts, Theories, and Problems” was held, and a collection of articles was published. – Tashkent, 2021. – 94 p.)
In November 2022, a republican scientific-practical conference titled “Our National Spiritual Heritage is the Source of Our Creative Abilities” was held at the Information and Mass Communications Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the folklorist-scientist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, writer, and poet Jalgasbay Khoshniyazov. – Нукус: Илим, 2022. 194 p.
In February 2025, an international scientific-theoretical and practical conference was held dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Karakalpak classical and lyrical poet Ajiniyaz Kosybayuly (Order of the Karakalpak Research Institute of Humanities dated February 6, 2024).
In November 2024, an international scientific-theoretical conference was held on the topic “Current Issues in the Study of Turkic Peoples’ Folklore and Literature: Concepts, Theory, and Problems,” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Karakalpak folklorist, literary scholar, and professor S. Bakhadyrova (Order of the Karakalpak Research Institute of Humanities No. 4/r dated February 6, 2024). No. – Nukus: Nur Turon Print, 2024. 154 p.