Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev
Mirror of a Culture
ISBN13: 9780198265474ISBN10: 0198265476
Hardback,
504 pages
Apr 1991,
In Stock
Price:
$175.00 (06)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.About the Author(s)
Clinton Bailey, Founder, Museum of Bedouin Culture in the Negev
With a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger
