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dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Dwight F.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-29T15:50:26Z
dc.date.available2023-03-29T15:50:26Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.identifierONIX_20230329_9781501723223_85
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62099
dc.description.abstractAn 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 commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMyth and Poetics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern historyen_US
dc.subject.otherFolklore, myths and legends
dc.subject.otherSocial and cultural anthropology
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.titleHeroic Poets, Poetic Heroes
dc.title.alternativeThe Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7298/qqgc-cp46
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407
oapen.relation.isFundedBy0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a
oapen.relation.isbn9781501723223
oapen.relation.isbn9780801431746
oapen.relation.isbn9781501723216
oapen.relation.isbn9781501723230
oapen.imprintCornell University Press
oapen.pages128
oapen.place.publicationIthaca
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oapen.grant.programOpen Book Program


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