Olonkho--duhovnoe nasledije naroda sakha. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

MAKHAROV, E. M. Editor. Olonkho--duhovnoe nasledije naroda sakha [Olongkho--the cultural heritage of the Sakha (Yakut) people]. Yakutsk: IGI AN RS (Ya), 2000. 199 pages. ISBN 5-8176-0013-7.

On the occasion of the meeting on the oral epic creativity that took place in Yakutsk in September 2000 (for a report on this meeting, see Asian Folklore Studies [AFS] 60: 147), a slim volume of papers on the Sakha (Yakut) epic tradition of olongkho works was published, under E. M. Makharov's editorship. The volume contains 16 papers; of the authors, the late N. V. Emeljanov, himself a Sakha ...

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