Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran

Erika Friedl is The E.E. Meader Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. Between 1965 and 2015 she won numerous grants to carry out fieldwork in Boir Ahmad, West Iran. Her honours and awards include the Presidential Scholar Award; Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award; and Phi Beta Kappa. Friedl is the author of several books on the people of Boir Ahmad, including: Women of Deh Koh, Children of Deh Koh, Warm Hearts and Sharp Tongues: Life in 555 Proverbs from the Zagros Mountains of Iran, and Folktales and Storytellers of Iran: Culture, Ethos and Identity.

• Map of Iran Acknowledgements, Transliteration, Dedication Introduction THE LYRICSI Old Times 1-45 II Looks, Desire, Passion 46-278How Beautiful 46-93 Drunk and Crazy 94-162 Pains and Vexations 163-200 Sad, Mad, and Sorry 201-251 Girls, Guns and Violence 252-278 III Spoken for and Married 279-388 Betrothed 279-346 Dance and Sing 347-365 Husband and Wife 366-388 IV Relationships 389-468 He Said, She Said 389-415 Wife’s Mother 416-427 Widow 428-434 Laloi 435-458 Others 459-470 V Mourning 471-530 VI Religion 531-560 VII At Work 561-589 VIII Other Places, All the Same 590- 616BIBLIOGRAPHYGLOSSARY

Remarkable ... Friedl is careful to explain that the songs are dialogical in the full sense of the word, many entailing dialogues but also encapsulating a multiplicity of views. One gets the sense that the volume as a whole is equally dialogical, the product of fifty years of con-versations. This is poetic history.