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Wit and Wisdom in Morocco 1931

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Kessinger Publishing, May 1, 2003 - Social Science - 464 pages
1931. A study of native proverbs. This book completes Westermarck's trilogy on the customs and ideas of the Moors, which is based on nine years' experience among them in the course of more than three decades. A large number of the proverbs found in this volume are sentences conveying a statement of a more or less general character which is either literally or metaphorically applicable to individual cases; but the statement of some particular event, real or imaginary, may also be a proverb, though only on condition that it may be figuratively applied to other events reminiscent of it. Proverbs have become proverbs only by being used in definite concrete situations.
  

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Contents

Introductory Essay
1
words antithesis pp 57 Proverbs that consist of
7
Proverbs containing an ordinary curse an oath
15
on words p 22 sq Rime pp 2427 Assonance pp 2730
27
pp 3341 Changes of consonants in the colloquial language
41
which have always been expressive of feelings or opinions
55
been intended to influence peoples walls and actions
63
The Family
89
Commerce
166
Begging and Charity
190
Hospitality
207
Kobbery
216
Ketribution and Forgiveness
227
Wrongdoing pp 252254 Guilt
257
Falsehood pp 264271 Boasting
279
Prudence pp 282289 Intellectual
289

Neighbours pp 103105 Friends pp 105
105
Officials
121
Christians pp 128130 Jews p 130 sq
132
Work
142
Miscellaneous Proverbs
295
Sayings Eelating to Certain Periods
301
Index
429

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