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Melodised Speech: Epic Narratives and Lamentations Among the Yezidis of Armenia

Melodised Speech: Epic Narratives and Lamentations Among the Yezidis of Armenia

de la Breteque, Estelle Amy

Hardcover

Series: Non-Mainstream Religion in the Middle East, Book 1

General Eastern Religions

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ISBN10: 9004775846
ISBN13: 9789004775848
Publisher: Brill
Pages: 146
Language: English
In Melodised Speech, Amy de la Bretèque offers an analysis of the oral traditions of the Yezidis of Armenia, including lamentations and epic narratives. She focuses on a specific mode of expression that is used by this community to evoke mourning, exile, and heroism. Combining ethnography, acoustic analysis, and linguistics, the author shows that this distinctive use of the voice enacts a social ideal in which the living remain connected to the absent and the deceased.

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