Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to prov...

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Huvudupphov:	Reynolds, Dwight F.
Materialtyp:	Online
Språk:	engelska
Utgiven:	Cornell University Press 2023
Ämnen:	Folklore, myths and legends Social and cultural anthropology Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
Länkar:	ONIX_20230329_9781501723223_85
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