ALFONSO FANJUL PERAZA, Deserts Stories & Bedouin Legends. Charleston, Pigafetta Collection, 2015. 122 pp. ISBN 978–84–606–6277–8. € 10

This book compiles a collection of stories showing local folklore and Egyptian Bedouin culture through oral tradition. Thanks to this book, this story, only known by locals, is now documented and accessible through these pages. Through this book one accesses a world of mythology of the Bedouin tribe...

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Autor principal: Argüelles Alvarez, Patricia
Formato: Reseña libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/7512
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Sumario:This book compiles a collection of stories showing local folklore and Egyptian Bedouin culture through oral tradition. Thanks to this book, this story, only known by locals, is now documented and accessible through these pages. Through this book one accesses a world of mythology of the Bedouin tribes of the Egyptian desert. These histories had not been documented and were conserved through the oral tradition of the local tribes and related with some archaeological discoveries. Gods, phantasms, ghouls, pilgrims, bandits and magical worlds weave the history more ancestral of these towns of the Egyptian desert...