| Hunza Proverbs |  | Author: Etienne Tiffou
Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 252
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1895176298
Dewey Decimal Number: 428
EAN: 9781895176292
ASIN: 1895176298
Publication Date: December 1993
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Product Description
The author has provided here a critical review of proverbs and riddles in the Burushaski language of the Hunza Valley, site of the legendary Shangri-La. Each entry is accompanied by linguistic and ethnologic commentaries. There are over 550 proverbs, riddles and manners of expression from Hunza. The book was undertaken to enrich the documentation already available on Burushaski, a spoken and isolated language of Karakoram, in the extreme north of Pakistan. It was hoped that the chosen stylistic form would bring to light particularities in syntactic turns and expressions; this hope was not betrayed. In addition, the text yields ample and valuable information on the Hunzukuts' customs and on their conception of the world. The reader will also find stylistic art form and folkloric psychology in these proverbs. Texts are translated word-for-word, with relevant sociological, cultural, literary and linguistic information. A brief grammatical outline of the language is provided in the introduction. Three indexes, at the end of the book, make consultation with the text easy.
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