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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