| Summary: | The compilation and initial examination of the Siberian Tatar folk literature heritage
was initiated by German scholar W. W. Ladloff in the second half of the XIX. century and in
the Soviet period, this work were continued to carry out by Kazan folklorists such as Hesen
Yermi, Flora Ahmetova, Fatih Urmançe, Lenar Camaletdinov and Mehmutov. Dr. Ferit
Yusupov dedicates half a century of his life to learning this ethnic language, dialectology and
culture. In the introduction, second volume his anthology which covers the roots of Siberian
Tatar folklore, that is, its tales, is addressed. The introductory article which examined the
structure of the book and tales in terms of etymology, subject and genre, had been informed
about texts and footnote section.
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