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Obras por Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

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I mainly got this book for the phonology section, which was unfortunately short. It was a decent analysis with nothing earth-shattering or unorthodox in it. I disagreed with a few details, but for the most part Rawi’s analysis lines up with Holes’ reference grammar from the same year (1990).
Most of the substance of the book is about noun constructions, which I didn’t read.
It has a useful section of texts, carefully noting the age and location of the speaker. The speakers are all women (if I remember correctly) and several of them are older. The transcription at times appears to be somewhat broad or “morphophonological,” rather than purely phonetic.

I upgraded my review from four to five stars after I started looking through the lexicon. There is a lot of unique cultural material in here.
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Shockleyy | Jun 6, 2021 |
i would give it a 9 if not for the biological-gender-essentialism. this is understandable within the frame of her materialist account of patriarchy, which i was persuaded by. but it would have been nice to have a caveat abt the divergence of the objective intention of patriarchy over time, attendant w the process of the global-comparative notion of "feminine/female".
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sashame | 5 outras críticas | Sep 12, 2020 |
I really, amazingly wanted to like this book. The first section is a little unbelievable, but a pleasant read, and who I am to say these weren't the author's experiences? I slogged through the so-called history section out of pure determination. Her 'history' was a self-serving collection of meaningless generalizations and unsubstantiated "facts".

I figured the section of exercises had to be worthwhile. Even if your history stinks, if you dance, how far wrong can you go in creating exercises for dancers? Right?

Wrong! This kind of pseudo-scientific semi-mystical crap is just not worth my time. Silly I could live with. Goofy I could live with. Blatantly false information (your spine is not actually ramrod straight unless you've been hideously injured) wrapped in pathetic attempts to ascribe all that is good and right in the world to an unbroken tradition of female dancing? I'm out. I'm done.

I'm sure this books speaks to someone. That someone is amazingly not me.
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hopeevey | 5 outras críticas | May 19, 2018 |
There were some really great (verbal) images here and personal history but as a whole it did not hold my interest.
 
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amaraduende | 5 outras críticas | Mar 30, 2013 |

Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
149
Popularidade
#139,413
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
7
ISBN
4
Línguas
1

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