Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel

<p><b>Galilee has been a crossroads of cultures religions and languages for centuries as illustrated in these fascinating Bedouin folktales which offer excellent examples of the Arabic narrative tradition of the Middle East.<br /></b><i><br />Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel </i>collects nearly 60 traditional folktales told mostly by women that have been carefully translated in the same colloquial style in which they were told. These stories are grouped into themes of love and devotion ghouls and demons and animal stories. The work also includes phonetic transcription and linguistic annotation. Accompanying each folktale is a comprehensive ethnographic folkloristic and linguistic commentary placing the tales in context with details on Galilee Bedouin dialects and the tribes themselves. <br /><br />A rich multifaceted collection <i>Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel </i>is an invaluable resource for linguists folklorists anthropologists and any reader interested in a tradition of storytelling handed down through the centuries.</p>