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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316216040
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216040
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, European and World Literature: General Interest, Anthropology: General Interest
Series:
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications (69)
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Book description

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

Reviews

'… The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes is in many ways a fantastically detailed primer to a world as yet invisible to those who cannot read Khanty, Hungarian, or German …'

Gabriel McGuire Source: Journal of Folklore Research

'Hatto finalizes his career-spanning work on epic traditions with this publication, monumental in analytical interpretation and in its attempt to glimpse some reflections of the ‘archaic mind’. … This book’s achievement is in documenting and conveying the cultural richness and nuanced topographies of the Khanty endemic landscapes and home territories whose singers seem to have been silenced forever.'

Tero Mustonen Source: Sibirica

‘Hatto’s world-view as a deeply immersed comparative folklorist offers valuable reminders of the richness of ethnopoetics as a way to conceptualize past worlds of beauty, terror, and creativity.’

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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