Heroes, Chieftains, and the Roots of Kirghiz Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11877818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Prior (0000-0002-4669-2861, The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-88 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-8481 • E-ISSN: 1754-9469 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2006.tb00150.x |
| OpenAlex | W2089146125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Modernist native elites had a very tenuous existence in prerevolutionary Kirghiz society, so the development of Kirghiz national consciousness (if any) before 1917 has been debatable. Tribal chieftains (manaps), though politically and economically reduced under Russian rule, still held pre-eminent positions in society and were favoured with dedications of original literary works. One such manuscript dedicated to the manap, Shabdan, uses the genre frameworks of traditional epic and expository poetry to express fresh concepts of ethnic difference with a nationalist bias. Thus a traditional tribal leader emerges as the focus of the first documented discourse in Kirghiz on an explicitly nationalist theme
Art · Consciousness · EPIC · Ethnic group · Focus (optics · Literature · Nationalism · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Theme (computing · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Computer Science · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |