The Sabdan Baatır Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 9004230408 ISBN 13 : 9789004230408

Editeur : Brill, 2012

Synopsis

In The Sabdan 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 Sabdan 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Prior, Ph.D. (2002), Indiana University, is Assistant Professor of History at Miami University. His publications include The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph (Harrassowitz, 2006).

Musa Chagataev (fl. ca. 1910), was the main author of the Codex.
Belek Soltonoev, d. 1938 (scribe).
Shabdan Dzhantaev, ca. 1839 - 1912 (patron).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004230408
• ISBN 13: 9789004230408
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 484
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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