ISBN: 9789004230408 - the sabdan baatır codex: epic and the writing of northern kirghiz history (brill's inner asian library, band 28) (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDaniel 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). .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Sabdan Baatir 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 Baatir, 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.…

Zustand: New. In English.