| The Sabdan Baatır Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History Contributor(s): Prior, Daniel (Editor), Prior, Daniel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9004230408 ISBN-13: 9789004230408 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $183.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 894.347 |
| LCCN: 2012030454 |
| Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.90 lbs) 484 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |