ISBN:
9781316787137
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
Series Statement:
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications v.69
Parallel Title:
Print version Hatto, Arthur The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes : An Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition
DDC:
894.51
Keywords:
Folk poetry, Khanty - History and criticism
Abstract:
This book deeply analyses the little-known tradition of oral heroic epic poetry of the Khanty, an indigenous people of Siberia
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Background: The Khanty -- Territory and Population -- History -- Traditional Way of Life -- Beliefs -- Language -- Verbal Art Genres -- 2 The Eighteen Khanty Heroic Epics, Their Collectors and Publishers -- 3 Introduction -- 4 The Cosmos -- The Netherworld -- The Middle World -- The Upper World -- 5 Time -- 6 The Seasons -- 7 Geography -- 'The Lowlands' or Northern Lands -- The 'Southland' -- The West -- The East -- Itineraries -- 8 Spirits -- The Sacred Corner and the Ancestor-Spirits -- Other Places of Conjuration: Sacrifice - Animal, Human, Other -- The Idol-Hut -- The Loηχ -- The Meηk -- The Otśi -- The Jeli -- Grey-Winged Elders -- Horses -- Intervention from beyond the Grave? -- Souls, Shades and Shapes -- Culture-Heroes -- Sacred Trees -- Shamanism -- 9 Personae -- Social Ranking -- Ego among His Brothers -- Ego and His Fosters -- The Bride -- The Bride as a Person -- The Antagonists -- The Rus -- The Samoyed -- 10 Warfare -- Tāren -- Scalping and Beheading -- The Blood-Feud -- Wooing-Expeditions -- 11 Armour and Weapons -- The Corselet -- Bows and Arrows -- Headgear -- Swords -- 12 Men's Handiwork -- Woodwork -- Ships and Boats -- Ironwork -- 13 Afterword: Arthur Hatto, Ethnopoetics, and Epic Moments -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series list
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