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Women's voices in a man's world : women and the pastoral tradition in Northern Somali orature, c. 1899-1980
- Title
- Women's voices in a man's world : women and the pastoral tradition in Northern Somali orature, c. 1899-1980 / Lidwien Kapteijns with Maryan Omar Ali.
- Author
- Kapteijns, Lidwien.
- Publication
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GR356.3 .K36 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ali, Maryan Omar.
- Description
- x, 224 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in African literature, 1351-5713
- Uniform Title
- Studies in African literature
- Subject
- Women > Somalia > Folklore
- Love songs > Somalia
- Oral tradition > Somalia
- Folk literature, Somali
- Love songs
- Manners and customs
- Oral tradition
- Women
- Liebeslied
- Mündliche Literatur
- Volksliteratur
- Frau
- Tradition
- Femmes > Somalie > Folklore
- Chansons d'amour > Somalie
- Tradition orale > Somalie
- Littérature populaire somalie
- Somali (peuple d'Afrique) > Moeurs et coutumes
- Geschichte 1899-1980
- Somalia > Social life and customs
- Somalia
- Somalia
- Somali
- Genre/Form
- Folklore.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.
- Contents
- Women and Gender Expectations in Northern Somali Orature of the "Era of Fire and Embers" (1899-1944) -- Introduction to Somali Society and History in the Colonial Period -- Girls in Somali Stories, Sayings, and Songs -- Married Women's Obedience and Sexual Fidelity -- Married Women's Work and Competence -- Women and Gender Expectations in Somali Love Songs of the Period c. 1944-1980 -- The Birth of a New Genre, the Popular Song -- Being in Love and Suffering Its Symptoms -- Reimagining Courtship: Romantic Love Versus the Discipline of Family and Kin Group -- Marriage and Its Critics: "Tradition" as a Literary Weapon -- Appendix of Somali Love Songs Quoted in Part Two.
- ISBN
- 0325001367
- 9780325001364
- 0325001332
- 9780325001333
- LCCN
- 99010619
- OCLC
- ocm40698417
- 40698417
- SCSB-966251
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library