Warm Hearts and Sharp Tongues Life in 555 Proverbs from the Zagros Mountains of Iran
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Erika Friedl
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Warm Hearts and Sharp Tongues Life in 555 Proverbs from the Zagros Mountains of Iran
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new academic press
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9783700321620
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1
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CHF 15.00
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Volkskunde
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English
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269
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Repentance is the Death of the Wolf - 580 annotated proverbs from a Lur tribe in the Zagros mountains let readers appreciate the thematic and emotional complexity of the local people's culture. They provide unique, authentic insights into the everyday philosophy, the thoughts, feelings and opinions local people have about themselves and the world. The author, an anthropologist, collected the sayings over the past forty years during many visits and observed the local way of life as it changed from'the old times' to modernity. Covering themes that are important for the people, such as work and hardships, life here and hereafter, relations between men and women and young and old, the book amounts to an unusually insightful ethnography of the inner lives of a little-known people, in their own words.
Content
5
The Proverbs
5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION
9
INTRODUCTION
11
I LURS, LURS
27
II THE WAY IT IS IN THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS
37
III GOD IS GREAT AND THE WORLD IS TURNING
57
IV THE OLD, DEATH AND THE DEAD
77
V A LIFE OF WORK AND WORK AS LIFE
91
VI MATTERS OF FOOD
109
VII HEART, HEALTH AND PAIN
127
VIII FULL HOUSE
143
IX PASSION, MARRIAGE AND WHAT WOMEN SAY
159
X GENEROSITY AND OBLIGATIONS
177
XI WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE
193
XII BEWARE
215
XIII WORDS, WORDS
239
BIBLIOGRAPHY
255
INDEX
262
