| Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture Contributor(s): Bailey, Clinton (Author), Thesiger, Wilfred (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0198265476 ISBN-13: 9780198265474 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1991 Annotation: Like other nonliterate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for all forms of communication and entertainment. Based on twenty years of studying the poetry of the Bedouin of Sinai and the Negev, this book presents 115 poems recorded between 1967 and 1985. Bailey arranges the poems according to their content, providing for each an introduction, a version of the poem in Arabic script and transliteration, and notes on the poem's cultural, linguistic, and historical background. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| LCCN: 89071143 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.3" W x 9.28" (1.96 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arab World - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Like other nonliterate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for all forms of communication and entertainment. Based on twenty years of studying the poetry of the Bedouin of Sinai and the Negev, this book presents 115 poems recorded between 1967 and 1985. Bailey arranges the poems according to their content, providing for each an introduction, a version of the poem in Arabic script and transliteration, and notes on the poem's cultural, linguistic, and historical background. |