The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes: An Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107103214)

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 -Nagy contributes specialist knowledge of the Khanty language to the linguistic interpretation of the texts, and there is an afterword by Daniel Prior.

Author: Arthur Hatto
ISBN-10: 1107103215
ISBN-13: 9781107103214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2017
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d