UID:
edocfu_9959226731702883
Format:
1 online resource (484 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-85515-1
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90-04-23727-5
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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36 /
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Facsimile /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-23040-8
Language:
English
