Women as Verbal Artists: Reclaiming the Sisters of Enheduanna

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ed by Anne Kaplan in Folklore Communication, No. 16, Fall 1978, p. 20; and Mary P. Coote, Women's Songs in Serbo-Croatian, Journal of American Folklore, 90 (1977), 331-38. 44. For example: Finnegan, Formal Speaking, and Other Stylized Forms, in Oral Literature in Africa, pp. 444-80; On the Ethnography of Oratory, papers by Michelle Rosaldo and Elinor O. Keenan in Language in Society, 2 (1973), 193-243; Maurice Bloch, ed., Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Society (New York: Academic Press, 1975); William J. Samarin, ed., Language in Religious Practice (Rowley, Massachusetts: Newbury House Publishers, 1976); Sapir and Crocker, ed., The Social Use of Metaphor. 45. Finnegan, Oral Literature in Africa, p. 374. Katherine Luomala, for example, reports that both western and eastern Polynesian groups have terms for genres which include not only myth, proverb, hero saga, and legend, but also artistic conversation, but gives no further data (Survey of Research on Polynesian Prose and Poetry, Journal of American Folklore, 74 [1961], 421). 46. Stephanie Mills, Salons and Their Keepers, CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer 1974, p. 102. Also see Marta Weigle, Salons and Saloons, Folklore Communication, No. 16, Fall 1978, pp. 21-24. 47. Edwin Ardener, Belief and the Problem of in Perceiving Women, ed. Shirley Ardener (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975), p. 3. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.127 on Mon, 27 Jun 2016 06:14:50 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms