Article

Name: Characteristics of the genre classification of non-folktale prose in the folklore of the peoples of Siberia

Authors: Limorenko Yulia Viktorovna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract: The paper examines the specificity of the genre classification of the narrative non-folktale stories of the Siberian peoples. Analyzed are the difficulties in distinguishing the genres of aetiological myths, legends, genealogic stories, narrations about shamans and supernatural beings, toponymic stories.

Keywords: folklore of the peoples of siberia, folk genres, non-folktale prose, myths, legends, traditional stories

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