Author: Bawden, C.R.
Title: Mongolian traditional literature. An anthology.
Description: London, Kegan Paul, 2003. 816 pp. Orig. hardcover. - Corners sl. bumped. Otherwise fine.This introduction to Mongolian literature, both oral and written, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, provides a rare insight into the changing worldviews - from clan society to Soviet culture - of the Mongolian people. Translated by renown scholar Charles Bawden, the work is organized into Histories, Legends, Didactic literature, Epics, Shamanistic Incantations, Folk-tales, Myths, Sino-Mongolian Prose Literature, Lyrics and Other Verse, and Reminiscences, concluding with a modern short story.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Mongolia Etnografie Azië Mongolië