The Walther Heissig collection of Mongolian oral literature
By: by Elisabetta Chiodo
Contributors: Heissig, Walther; Rincindorji, J., 1936-; Nim-a, 1940-; Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
Series: Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste -- Bd. 126; Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste -- Bd. 126.
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paderborn
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9783506772251
Subjects: Audiotape catalogs; Catalogs; Mongolian Folk literature; Mongolian Folk poetry; Mongols; Folklore; Mongolian Epic literature; Mongolian Songs; Texts; Shamanism; Oral tradition; Mongolian Poets; Biography; Bards and bardism; Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
Description: Guide to texts transcribed by Rinčindorǰi and Nima from recordings made by Walther Heissig (from 1984 to 1995), Rinčindorǰi and Nima.
Notes: In English; pref. in German.

"Heissig's collection ... includes 238 tape-recordings and 90 notebooks of Mongolian transcriptions. In June 2006 ... the collection was donated to the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences in Düsseldorf"--P. [9].

Includes bibliographical references ([93]-99).
Table of contents: title: Biographies of bards; title: Tales accompanied by the fiddle (quyur-un-üliger); title: Heroic epics of eastern Inner Mongolia; title: Heroic epics of Ulayančab, Inner Mongolia; title: Heroic epics of Baryu Banners, Inner Mongolia; title: Heroic epics of Khovd Ajmag, north-west Mongolia; title: Folk tales of Bayarin; title: Ritual songs of Qorčin Mongol shamans; title: Literature; title: Provisional list of other texts of the collection; title: Photos.