World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes
«'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, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute»
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107103214
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«'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, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute»
«'… 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, 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, Sibirica»