Flagg Miller is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This brilliant interdisciplinary work on media and tribal poetry in
Yemen by a superb Arabist is at once a significant contribution to
media studies, linguistic pragmatics, poetics, and the anthropology
of the Middle East. The scholarship is thorough, carefully building
on previous research, but also departing from it in original and
imaginative ways… While acknowledging that the two aesthetics of
circulation and resonance are integral to each other, Miller argues
that it is particularly the aesthetics of ‘resonance’ that is
important to understanding how moral authority, political order (or
disorder), and artistic success are debated by Yemenis. This idea,
and the claims the author makes for it, will surely occasion lively
discussion and debate.
*Middle East Journal*
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