Paroles melodisees

Recits epiques et lamentations chez les Yezidis d'Armenie

by Estelle Amy de la Breteque, edited by Catherine Coquio

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Extent: 230 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Litterature, histoire, politique

Series volume number: 6

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9782812407871

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $36.00

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Hardback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9782812410918

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $57.00

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In the Kurdish-speaking communities of Armenia, mourning, exile, and heroism are expressed through a specific system of utterances. Blending ethnography, acoustic analysis, and linguistics, the author shows that this use of the voice constructs a form of ideal life linking the living to the absent and deceased.

  • By (author) Estelle Amy de la Breteque
  • Edited by Catherine Coquio