An annotated collection of folktales from southern Saudi Arabia (Jizan region)
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Waleed Ahmed Himli
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
McDowell, John H.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Indiana University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
196
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: El-Shamy, Hasan M.; Shukla, Pravina
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-47537-1
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Body granting the degree
Indiana University
Text preceding or following the note
2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Folklore
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Folktale classification;Folktale motifs;Folktales;Jizan region