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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

- The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

About 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 provide a context for social interaction and...

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781501723216
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 128
  • Published:
  • August 14, 2018
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x19 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 454 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 15, 2024

Description of 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 provide a context for social interaction and...

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