LEADER 04207oam 2200565zu 450 001 996247943803316 005 20210803234454.0 010 $a0-520-91372-8 010 $a0-585-13539-8 024 7 $a2027/heb00222 035 $a(CKB)111057870438054 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083743 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116383 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083743 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163851 035 $a(PQKB)10992507 035 $a(dli)HEB00222 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005549876 035 $a(DE-B1597)647916 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520913721 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870438054 100 $a20160829d1990 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Peaks of Yemen I summon" $epoetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe /$fSteven C. Caton 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of California Press$d1990 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 351 p., [6] p. of plates ) $cill. 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-08261-3 311 $a0-520-06766-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPART I. Background --$t1. Doing an Ethnography of Poetry --$t2. Gabyilah: Ideologies of Tribalism, Language, and Poetry --$t3. The Social Production of Poetry --$tPART II. The System of Poetic Genres --$t4. The B?lah: Poem as Play --$t5. The Poetic Construction of Shelf --$t6. The Z?mil: Between Performance and Text-Utterance --$t7. Power, Poetry, and Persuasion --$t8. The Qa??dah: Individual Talent and the Cultural Tradition --$t9. Tribal Ideology, the State, and Communicative Practices --$tCONCLUSION: Poetry as Cultural Practice --$tAPPENDIXES --$tA. Yemeni Tribal Arabic Phonology --$tB. A Linguistic Theory of Meter --$tC. Transcription of the Sample B?lah Poem--$tD. Transcription of the Sample B?lah Development Section--$tE. Transcription of al-Gharsi's Poem--$tF. Transcription of a?-??f?'s Poem--$tG. Transcription of al-Ma?lah's Poem 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aFolk poetry, Arabic$xHistory and criticism$zYemen (Republic) 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aMiddle Eastern Languages & Literatures$2HILCC 607 $aYemen (Republic)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aFolk poetry, Arabic$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aMiddle Eastern Languages & Literatures 676 $a398.2/095332 700 $aCaton$b Steven Charles$f1950-$01021325 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247943803316 996 $a"Peaks of Yemen I summon"$92420809 997 $aUNISA