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The Šabdan Baatır Codex : Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History by Daniel Prior is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In <i>The Šabdan Baatır Codex</i>, 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 p
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- Author
- Daniel Prior
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004237278
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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