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UNINA9910807030403321 |
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Prior Daniel |
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Titolo |
The Šabdan Baatir Codex [[electronic resource] ] : epic and the writing of northern Kirghiz history : edition, translation and interpretations, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript / / edition, translation and interpretatios, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript by Daniel Prior |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-85515-1 |
90-04-23727-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (484 p.) |
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Collana |
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Brill's Inner Asian library ; ; 28 |
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Soggetti |
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Kyrgyz literature - History and criticism |
Epic literature, Kyrgyz - History and criticism |
Historiography - Kyrgyzstan |
Kyrgyzstan History Sources |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter / Daniel Prior -- General Introduction / Daniel Prior -- Text and Translation / Daniel Prior -- Commentary / Daniel Prior -- Appendices / Daniel Prior -- Maps / Daniel Prior -- Genealogical Chart / Daniel Prior -- Bibliography / Daniel Prior -- 36 / Daniel Prior -- Facsimile / Daniel Prior. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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