Монгольский странник-бадарчин

Abstract

The article analyzes the insufficiently studied nowadays social miсrogroup of Mongolian wanderers-badarchin. The study identifies the specific features and functions of this group and the role of the wanderers in the society. It highlights the positive aspects of the educational activities of the wanderers as the carriers of information, knowledge about the surrounding world and religious education. The article points out the specific characteristics of the wanderers’ capabilities, their ability to fulfill their destiny. The article reveals the reflection of the image of a wanderer in the Mongolian folklore and the historical memory of the nation. It shows the attitude of the people towards wanderers and the diverse characteristics of their image. On the example of certain individual’s fates, their activities and merits to their nations the study traces the development and transformation of the wandering, its role in the society in different historical periods up to the present.