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The Sabdan Baatir Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History (Brill's Inner Asian Library): 28 - Hardcover

Book 38 of 46: Brill's Inner Asian Library
 
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Synopsis

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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About the Author

Daniel Prior, Ph.D. (2002), Indiana University, is Assistant Professor of History at Miami University. His publications include The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph (Harrassowitz, 2006).

Musa Chagataev (fl. ca. 1910), was the main author of the Codex.
Belek Soltonoev, d. 1938 (scribe).
Shabdan Dzhantaev, ca. 1839 - 1912 (patron).

From the Back Cover

Musa a atayev (fl. ca. 1910), was the main author of the Codex.

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