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Addressing Controversial Issues About The Relevance And Rational Qualities Of Faith While Tracing The History Of Organized Religion From Its Roots In Folk Beliefs To Its Key Role In Modern Issues

Peaks Of Yemen I Summon: Poetry As Cultural Practice In A North Yemeni Tribe,New Steeplechase Arts Quick BreadsIn This First Fullscale Ethnographic Study Of Yemeni Tribal Poetry, Steven Caton Reveals An Astonishingly Rich Folkloric System Where Poetry Is Both A Creation Of Art And A Political And Social Act. Almost Always Spoken Or Chanted, Yemeni Tribal Poetry Is Cast In An Idiom Considered Colloquial And 'Ungrammatical,' Yet Admired For Its Wit And Spontaneity. In Yemeni Society, The Poet Has Power Over People. By Eloquence The Poet Can Stir Or, If His