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Peaks of Yemen I Summon - Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (Paperback, Revised)
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Peaks of Yemen I Summon - Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (Paperback, Revised)
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In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal
poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system
where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social
act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast
in an idiom considered colloquial and 'ungrammatical', yet admired
for its wit and spontaneity. In Yemeni society, the poet has power
over people. By eloquence the poet can stir or, if his poetic
talents are truly outstanding, motivate an audience to do his
bidding. Yemeni tribesmen think, in fact, that poetry's
transformative effect is too essential not to use for pressing
public issues. Drawing on his three years of field research in
North Yemen, Caton illustrates the significance of poetry in Yemeni
society by analyzing three verse genres and their use in weddings,
war mediations, and political discourse on the state. Moreover,
Caton provides the first anthropology of poetics. Challenging
Western cultural assumptions that political poetry can rarely rise
above doggerel, Caton develops a model of poetry as cultural
practice. To compose a poem is to construct oneself as a
peacemaker, as a warrior, as a Muslim. Thus the poet engages in
constitutive social practice. Because of its highly
interdisciplinary approach, this book will interest a wide range of
readers including anthropologists, linguists, folklorists, literary
critics, and scholars of Middle Eastern society, language, and
culture.
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