{"product_id":"9781316784259","title":"The World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes: An Exploration of a Siberian Oral Tradition","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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133568565488,"sku":"9781316784259","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316784259_p0.jpg?v=1763706972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316784259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}