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Ethno-Linguistic Materials from Rural Mazandaran

Borjian, Maryam; Borjian, Habib

The texts published here are in an eastern Mazandarani dialect spoken in the Caspian littoral in northern Iran. The informant is a rural woman who recollects the supernatural deeds of her father-in-law, revered like a saint after his death. The stories are narrated in a most intimate manner, something rarely published previously in Iranian dialect documentations. The folkloric songs typify those sung in Caspian rice paddies by women, who traditionally have a dominant role in the rural economy. The stories and songs provide both linguistic and ethnographic data for this poorly studied but important province with its unique culture among the Iranian-speaking groups in Iran.

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Iran and the Caucasus
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/157338407X265469

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Center for Iranian Studies
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January 31, 2018