Description: World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes, An Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition, Hardcover by Hatto, A. T., ISBN 1107103215, ISBN-13 9781107103214, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "In his final book, the late A. T. 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. Th 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, th also includes a section of background information on the Khanty people. Marianne Bakrâo-Nagy contributes specialist knowledge of the Khanty language to the linguistic interpretation of the texts, and there is an afterword by Daniel Prior"--
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Book Title: World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes, An Exploration of a Siberi
Number of Pages: 294 Pages
Publication Name: World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes : an Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: General, Poetry
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Arthur Hatto
Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
