Hasan m elshamy (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. 'This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable.'--Daniel J. Crowley, 'Research in African Literatures' 'Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed.'--Kenneth J. Perkins, 'International Journal of Oral History'.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIn this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy s English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve t.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. In 1704, the French Orientalist Galland introduced a translation of The Thousand and One Nights . Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed, including texts not found in the indigenous manuscripts. This book claims to provide .

Gebunden. Zustand: New. An examination of kinship and affinal relations as expressed in traditional folktales and other genres of lore. It explores the gender factor and its impact on the form, structure, and contents of the various items in conjunction with the concepts of multip.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnGeorge List (1911-2008) was Director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1954 until his retirement in 1976. He is credited with helping to develop the Ethnomusicology Program a.