Gabrielle van den Berg

Gebundenes Buch

Ministrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains, w. CD-Audio

A Study on Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan

Beschreibung

This book is a description and an analysis of the sung poetry of the Ismailis from Tajik Badakhshan and is based on material collected during fieldwork in the Pamir Mountains, in the south-east of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. The Ismailis of Badakhshan have a rich religious and poetic tradition which has largely been handed down orally. The book contains an extensive anthology containing transcripts of the poetry recorded during fieldwork. This poetry, both in Persian and in Pamir languages, has never been published before.

Autor

Gabrielle Rachel van den Berg

MA Persian: February 1991
PhD Persian: October 1997

2003-2006 Lecturer in Persian, Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, University of Leiden
2001-2004 Researcher for the project 'A Pictorial Corpus of the Shahnama', University of Cambridge
and University of Edinburgh
2000-2003 Researcher for the project 'Living Traditions of the Ismaili World: The Case of Tajik Badakhshan',
Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
2002-2003 Lecturer in Persian, IPHO, University of Brussels (ULB)
1998-2001 E.G. Browne Lecturer in Persian, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
1997-1998 Lecturer in Persian, Department of Languages and Cultures of the Islamic Middle East, University of Leiden
1992-1996 Researcher at the School CNWS for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, University of Leiden

Produktdetails

• Iran - Turan 06
• Verlag: Reichert / Reichert Verlag
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 2339
• Seitenzahl: 788
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm
• Gewicht: 1450g
• ISBN-13: 9783895003394
• ISBN-10: 3895003395
• Artikelnr.: 13750536

Rezensionen

"This masterful study sets a new standard for the study of the relationships between text varieties and oral performance as interlocking genre systems in Persian and other languages in Badakhshani Ismaili communities. (...)
In summary, this study takes the reader about as close to praticipation in a living oral tradition as a printed analysis can do. It supplies a wealth of information for follow-up research in linguistics, folklore/oral poetics/ performance studies, and ethnomusicology, and for comparison to studies of other regions. Van den Berg has already situated her study clearly in relation to other studies such as Jean During's work on Chishti Sufi samâ. If this reader had to point to only two major theoretical/methodological contributions of this study, they would be (a) the very effective documentation of oral-literary connections in the performance genre system, and (b) the strong demonstration of the necessity for intertextual performance analyses, taking as the over-arching unit of analysis not genres in isolation, but genre systems in social context. This study, in addition, provides a rich and respectful presentation of the devotional and secular verbal aesthetics iof Badakhshani Ismailis. It will be essential reading in future for all who undertake cultural research in the region."

In: Bibliotheca Orientalis. LXIII (2006) N°5-6. Sp. 624-626.