BOOKS by Steven Charles Caton

Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe more books like this

by Steven Charles Caton

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 ...

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Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation more books like this

by Steven Charles Caton

In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. Soon he was embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. This is Caton's touchingly candid account of the extraordinary events that ensued.

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