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Survival of the Traditional Romancero: Field Expeditions
(1987-05)
Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel and complementary activities: first, obtaining material directly from the context in which it is produced and, second, processing ...
Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern
(1989-01)
"Epic narrative typically spells out departures and arrivals very clearly (see Bowra 1952:179 ff). The Arabic migration epic Sīrat Banī Hilāl, in its many different cultural transformations and retellings, has a structure ...