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"Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe
Steven Charles Caton
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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A Note on Transcription (page xv)
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PART I. Background
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1. Doing an Ethnography of Poetry (page 3)
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2. Gabyilah: Ideologies of Tribalism, Language, and Poetry (page 25)
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3. The Social Production of Poetry (page 50)
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PART II. The System of Poetic Genres
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4. The Bālah: Poem as Play (page 79)
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5. The Poetic Construction of Shelf (page 109)
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6. The Zāmil: Between Performance and Text-Utterance (page 127)
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7. Power, Poetry, and Persuasion (page 155)
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8. The Qaṣīdah: Individual Talent and the Cultural Tradition (page 180)
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9. Tribal Ideology, the State, and Communicative Practices (page 216)
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CONCLUSION: Poetry as Cultural Practice (page 249)
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APPENDIXES
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A. Yemeni Tribal Arabic Phonology (page 271)
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B. A Linguistic Theory of Meter (page 274)
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C. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Poem (page 286)
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D. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Development Section (page 290)
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E. Transcription of al-Gharsi's Poem (page 293)
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F. Transcription of aṣ-Ṣūfī's Poem (page 295)
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G. Transcription of al-Maʿlah's Poem (page 299)
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Notes (page 305)
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Bibliography (page 329)
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Index (page 345)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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IJMES | 24.2 (May 1992): 337-339 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28199205%2924%3A2%3C337%3A%22OYISP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
IJAF | 105.418 (Autumn 1992): 510-511 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8715%28199223%29105%3A418%3C510%3A%22OYISP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 |
JAOS | 113.3 (July 1993): 467-468 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28199307%2F09%29113%3A3%3C467%3A%22OYISP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L |
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Published: c1990
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520067660 (hardcover)
- 9780520082618 (paper)