title: Karakalpak Adetleri ve Bakhtin’in Karnavalı Arasındaki Benzerlikler
abstract: Karakalpaks furnished some of their traditions with the rites that praise and demand fertility for their women and earth, that convey the society’s acknowledgement of the integration of death and birth, and that depict the importance of threshold. Mikhail Bakhtin’s observation of the carnival and the grotesque reveals similar concepts: fertility, juxtaposition of death and birth and the idea of threshold. This article draws an analogy between some of Karakalpak rites and Bakhtin’s carnival in te
journal: Bilig Journal of Social Sciences in Turkish World