Rhetorics and politics in Afghan traditional storytelling /

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Author / Creator:Mills, Margaret Ann
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1991.
Description:xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1281215
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ISBN:0812281993 (alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • 1. Where We Were
  • 2. What Gets Said
  • 3. Khalīfah Karīm, "Mulla Mongol the Martyr"
  • 4. Khalīfah Karīm, "Rasūl's Mother"
  • 5. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Ten Qerān"
  • 6. ākhond Mulla Mahmād, "Salīm the Jeweller"
  • 7. Khalīfah Karīm, "'ādel Khān 'the Just'"
  • 8. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd "Mahmūd of Ghaznī and the Thieves"
  • 9. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "The Old Thief with Five Sons"
  • 10. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Women's Tricks"
  • Ii. "Fill a Pipe for the Ākhond!": the Ākhond and the Rabbi of Herat
  • 12. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "That Little Donkey and That Little Door" and "If/But"
  • 13. ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Black and White"
  • 14. Khalīfah Karīm, "The Corrupt and the Good"
  • 15. Khalīfah Karīm, "The Ill Fortune of the City of Rūm"
  • 16. "I Speak with Each According to His Understanding . . ."
  • Appendix 1. Transliteration Sample
  • Appendix 2. Glossary
  • Appendix 3. Motif and Tale Type Index
  • Bibliography
  • Index