Soqotri Lullabies
Abstract
In the Autumn of 2019, the present author, in collaboration with Sarali Gintsburg and Vitaly Naumkin, was able to collect, decipher and analyze 18 lullabies in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (Island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). Besides numerous text samples, the article contains a brief history of the previous research, a systematic comparison between the newly gathered texts and those published by David Heinrich Müller in 1905, as well as some comparative remarks pertaining to the Old Babylonian lullabies – the earliest known specimens of this genre.
About the Author
L. E. Kogan
Higher School of Economics;
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Leonid E. Kogan, Ph. D. (Phil.), Head of the Near Eastern Department, Faculty of Humanities of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of the Higher School of Economics; leading researcher of the Center for Arab Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Russian research mission on Island of Soqotra (Gulf of Aden, Yemen) since 2009
Moscow
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Acknowledgments: The article has been written in the framework of the project 20-012-41005 supported by RFBR.
For citation:
Kogan L.E. Soqotri Lullabies. Orientalistica. 2020;3(2):443-456. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2020-3-2-443-456
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