Yakut leader Tygyn as a phenomenon of ethnic culture

DOI

10.2991/icsbal-19.2019.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethnography, folklore, Yakuts, legends, leadership, culture

Abstract

In the culture of the Yakut people, the image of the legendary leader Tygyn, who lived at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, is of great importance for the world’ ethnography, folklore, and ethnic studies. Moreover, it is an interesting example of a study of leadership. Tygyn attempted to unite the scattered Yakut tribes into a single state formation - the chiefdom of his sort. His activities were suppressed by events related to the accession of Yakutia to the Moscow state. Our paper shows how the legendary figure Tygyn became the image of the ideal leader for the Yakuts - their Khan, idealized military leader, as well as the descendant of divine ancestors. We recorded a significant cycle of historical legends about this charismatic leader. Our results and findings prove that charisma of Tygyn goes back to the mythology of the Turkic-Mongolian epic. The transition from traditional to charismatic legitimacy occurred in the Yakuts in the era of the meeting of the two power systems. The image of Tygyn is multifunctional in modern Yakut society and is key for its perception of leadership and leaders.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Olga Parfenova
AU  - Saassylana Sivtseva
AU  - Matrena Okorokova
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - Yakut leader Tygyn as a phenomenon of ethnic culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social, Business, and Academic Leadership (ICSBAL 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 56
EP  - 64
SN  - 2352-5398
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