Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 862 g
Reihe: Brill's Inner Asian Library
Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History
Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 862 g
Reihe: Brill's Inner Asian Library
ISBN: 978-90-04-23040-8
Verlag: Brill
In The Šabdan 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 Šabdan 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.
Zielgruppe
Academic libraries and institutes, researchers, and students of 18th - 20th Central and Inner Asian history, heroic epic poetry, and Steppe Turkic traditions of historiography.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
