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"Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe

Caton, Steven Charles, 1950-

Year: c1990.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transcription

PART I. Background

1. Doing an Ethnography of Poetry

2. Gabyilah: Ideologies of Tribalism, Language, and Poetry

3. The Social Production of Poetry

PART II. The System of Poetic Genres

4. The Bālah: Poem as Play

5. The Poetic Construction of Shelf

6. The Zāmil: Between Performance and Text-Utterance

7. Power, Poetry, and Persuasion

8. The Qaṣīdah: Individual Talent and the Cultural Tradition

9. Tribal Ideology, the State, and Communicative Practices

CONCLUSION: Poetry as Cultural Practice

APPENDIXES

A. Yemeni Tribal Arabic Phonology

B. A Linguistic Theory of Meter

C. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Poem

D. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Development Section

E. Transcription of al-Gharsi's Poem

F. Transcription of aṣ-Ṣūfī's Poem

G. Transcription of al-Maʿlah's Poem

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

"Peaks of Yemen I summon" : poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Steven C. Caton.

Author:

Caton, Steven Charles, 1950-

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"Peaks of Yemen I summon" : poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Steven C. Caton.
Caton, Steven Charles, 1950-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.

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Subject Headings:

• Folk poetry, Arabic -- Yemen -- History and criticism
• Yemen (Republic) -- Social life and customs

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