Oral Tradition from the Indus 9781406896176

The world and the word: tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition 9780299133108, 9780299133139

A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of

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Oral tradition as history 9780299102142, 9780299102135, 9780299102104

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Epic Singers and Oral Tradition 9781501731921

Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of

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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition 9781479825813

Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyid

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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition 9781479806591

Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī

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Oral Narrative in Afghanistan: The Individual in Tradition 1000094332, 9781000094336

This book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the

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Liptako Speaks: History from Oral Tradition in Africa [Course Book ed.] 9781400855513

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples

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Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition 9781463222024

The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on o

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Indus Basin Uninterrupted 9789390914395

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Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective 9780190681685, 0190681683

"For many indigenous peoples, oral history is a living intergenerational phenomenon that is crucial to the transmis

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