UID:
almahu_9949702076202882
Format:
1 online resource (ca. 375 pages)
ISBN:
9789004237278
Series Statement:
Brill's Inner Asian library ; 28
Content:
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.
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Front Matter /
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General Introduction /
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Text and Translation /
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Commentary /
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Appendices /
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Maps /
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Genealogical Chart /
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Bibliography /
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Additional Edition:
Print version: The Šabdan Baatır Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013, ISBN 9789004230408
Language:
English
Keywords:
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