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James Darmesteter (1849-94) was a great French Iranist who from 1885 occupied the chair of Persian language and literature at the Collège de France in Paris. His major fields of study were Iranian philology and the Zoroastrian religion. His greatest scholarly achievement was his translation of the Avesta, the surviving ancient sacred texts of the Zoroastrians. Darmesteter was also very interested in the language and history of Afghanistan. In 1886-87 he undertook an 11-month philological mission to India, supported by the French Ministry of Education. He spent much of this time on the Northwest Frontier area of the Punjab, where he studied Pushto, not as a literary language from written texts but as a living language. Assisted by two local amanuenses, he transcribed the texts of songs as dictated by popular singers. He supplemented his collection with songs written down by various British authors. Upon his return to Paris, Darmesteter published the work presented here, Chants populaires des Afghans (Popular songs of the Afghans), a collection of more than 100 songs in Pushto script, with annotated French translations. He grouped the songs in five categories: "Chansons historiques"

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Author

Darmesteter, James, 1849-1894.

Publisher

Imprimerie nationale, E. Leroux, 1888-90.

Published

1890

Language

FR

Category

nonfiction