Module ARA3152 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3152: Folklore and Identity in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Abu Lughod, L. (1986) Veiled Sentiments
Bauman, R and Sherzer, J. (eds.) (1989) Explorations in the ethnography of speaking
Bauman, R. (ed.) (1992) Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments: a communications-centered handbook.
Bettelheim, B. (1976) The Uses of Enchantment
Finnegan, R (1992) Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts
Hobsbawm, E and Ranger, T (1983) The Invention of Tradition
Mills, M. (1991) Rhetorics and Poetics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling
Propp, V. (1968) The Morphology of the Folktale
Reynolds, D. (1995) Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Shryock, A. (1997 ) Nationalism and the Geneological Imagination
Reading materials, useful links and announcements will be placed on ELE
