Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

An 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 prov...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Reynolds, Dwight F.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Cornell University Press 2022
Subjects:	Folklore, myths & legends thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
Online Access:	ONIX_20220715_9781501723230_857
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