Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

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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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Main Author: Reynolds, Dwight F. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1995
Series:Myth and Poetics
Subjects:
Folklore, myths & legends
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Middle Eastern history
Folklore, myths and legends
Social and cultural anthropology
Literature: history and criticism
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