An annotated collection of folktales from southern Saudi Arabia (Jizan region)
[Thesis]
Waleed Ahmed Himli
McDowell, John H.
Indiana University
2014
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Committee members: El-Shamy, Hasan M.; Shukla, Pravina
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-47537-1
M.A.
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
2014
This thesis contains a collection of folktales that was the result of intensive fieldwork in 2008 in the region of Jizan in southern Saudi Arabia. I have traveled to Jizan several times in order to meet people from there to sit and document their folktales. I visited people in different places, including their homes and outside their homes, with the intention of writing down their oral traditional tales. Even if I had encountered many obstacles and challenges, such as the geographical difficulties and different customs of my informants, I successfully completed my research.
Folklore
Social sciences;Folktale classification;Folktale motifs;Folktales;Jizan region