University of Cambridge Oriental Publications: The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes
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- Synopsis
- In his final book, the late Arthur Hatto analyses the Khanty epic tradition in Siberia on the basis of eighteen texts of Khanty oral heroic epic poems recorded and edited by a succession of Hungarian and Russian scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book examines the world view of an indigenous culture as reconstructed from its own words, demonstrates a flexible outline for organising an analytical dossier of the genre of oral heroic epic poetry in a specific culture, and presents an abundance of new information to compare with better-known heroic epics. Consisting of main sections on The Cosmos, Time, The Seasons, Geography, Spirits, Personae, Warfare, Armour and Weapons, and Men's Handiwork, the book also includes a section of background information on the Khanty people. Marianne Bakr#65533;-Nagy contributes specialist knowledge of the Khanty language to the linguistic interpretation of the texts, and there is an afterword by Daniel Prior.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316784259
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/24/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.