Chapitre IV. Des grands bêtas au petit malin
Abstracts
The dead are not the only spirits who devour the living. In this chapter we study the ogre, who should be considered as an antisocial character recalling the epic hero by their common greediness. Not very clever, the ogre is opposed to D’ajkü, the little Nganasan trickster, whose story is recounted in a cycle of ten episodes. The adventures of the trickster are analyzed with respect to the European tales from which they derive, and also considering the Nganasan context where their meaning is completely transformed. The complexity and originality of this cycle stem from the appearance of a second trickster whom D’ajku imitates, which sheds a new light on Nganasan shamanism.
References
Bibliographical reference
Jean-Luc Lambert, “Chapitre IV. Des grands bêtas au petit malin”, Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 33-34 | 2003, 433-488.
Electronic reference
Jean-Luc Lambert, “Chapitre IV. Des grands bêtas au petit malin”, Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines [Online], 33-34 | 2003, Online since 17 March 2009, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/1379; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.1379
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