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The Šabdan Baatir Codex : epic and the writing of northern Kirghiz history : edition, translation and interpretations, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript / edition, translation and interpretatios, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript by Daniel Prior.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prior, Daniel.
- Series:
- Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 28.
- Brill's Inner Asian library ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kyrgyz literature--History and criticism.
- Kyrgyz literature.
- Epic literature, Kyrgyz--History and criticism.
- Epic literature, Kyrgyz.
- Historiography--Kyrgyzstan.
- Historiography.
- Kyrgyzstan--History--Sources.
- Kyrgyzstan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (484 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Šabdan Baatır Codex , Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz poetry, which includes detailed accounts of nineteenth-century warfare. Dedicated to the chief Šabdan Baatır, the Codex occupies an illuminating position in a network of oral and written genres that encompassed epic poetry and genealogy, panegyric and steppe oral historiography; that echoed oral performance and aspired to print publishing. The Codex’s fresh articulation of concepts of Kirghiz self-identification was incipiently national, yet remained couched in traditional forms. The Codex thus bridges the interval, often glossed over in cultural histories, between a supposedly archaic state of oral epic tradition and the “afterlife” of epics in modern ethno-nationalist projects.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / Daniel Prior
- General Introduction / Daniel Prior
- Text and Translation / Daniel Prior
- Commentary / Daniel Prior
- Appendices / Daniel Prior
- Maps / Daniel Prior
- Genealogical Chart / Daniel Prior
- Bibliography / Daniel Prior
- 36 / Daniel Prior
- Facsimile / Daniel Prior.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283855150
- 1283855151
- 9789004237278
- 9004237275
- OCLC:
- 821180719
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004237278 DOI
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