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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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