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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
10 Aug 2000
Kyrgyz Heroes - Songs of Sanzhyra and Tales of Batyrlar
webdocumentary.net, Netherlands
Supplied note:
"Anthropological study of genres in Kyrgyz oral
histories/traditions: Sanzhyra (the history
of lineages), the epos Manas, toi/ash
(commemorative events), and biography.
Online Master thesis - originally published on
cd-rom, 1999 - University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Author: Thomas Voorter.
Fieldwork data: Osh, Fergana Valley
(Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan); June-December 1996.
Keywords: social and historical anthropology,
Kyrgyzstan, Central-Asia, genres, oral history,
memory and power, interactive storytellers,
games, ethnicity.
Chapters included: 1) Introduction; 2) The Genealogy
of Kyrgyz Identities; 3) Sanzhyra Bagysh; 4) Manas,
the Kyrgyz Hero-Song; 5) 20th Century Batyr;
6) Sanzhyra Manas; 7) The Memorial Feast for
Tsheibyl-Bolosh; 8) Conclusion."
URL http://www.webdocumentary.net
Link suggested by: Thomas Voorter (t.voorter@cable.a2000.nl)
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