Arab Folklore : A Handbook
by Reynolds, Dwight FletcherFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-09-30
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
The Arab world is constantly in the news. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to Arab culture by surveying the folklore of the region. The volume defines and classifies different types of folklore and provides a wide range of examples and texts. It looks at the critical and scholarly response to Arab folklore and the place of Arab folklore in contemporary culture. Included are references to numerous print and electronic works for further reading.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Who Are the Arabs? | p. 1 |
| Further Readings on Arab Culture and History | p. 22 |
| Definitions and Classifications | p. 25 |
| Examples and Texts | p. 29 |
| Verbal Arts | p. 29 |
| Musical Arts | p. 133 |
| Material Arts | p. 166 |
| Customs and Traditions | p. 182 |
| Further Readings on Arabic Oral Poetry | p. 200 |
| Further Readings about Arabic Folk Narratives | p. 201 |
| Further Readings on Arabic Proverbs | p. 202 |
| Further Readings on Conversational Genres | p. 203 |
| Further Readings on Arab Folk Music | p. 204 |
| Further Readings on Arab Material Folk Arts | p. 205 |
| Further Readings on Arab Folk Customs and Traditions | p. 206 |
| Scholarship and Approaches | p. 207 |
| The Historical-Geographic Method | p. 210 |
| Structuralism | p. 212 |
| Functionalism | p. 213 |
| Folklore in Context | p. 214 |
| Performance Studies | p. 215 |
| Oral Composition in Performance | p. 216 |
| Contemporary Approaches | p. 217 |
| Contexts | p. 219 |
| Orality in Early Arab Culture | p. 220 |
| From Oral to Written: Folklore in Medieval Arabic Literature | p. 222 |
| Folklore in Modern Arab Literature and Cinema | p. 225 |
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