Summary
Palestinian anthropologist, born in `Arrabe in the Galilee in 1935, who had already collected a substantial sampling of Palestinian folktales before joining Ibrahim Muhawi to make Speak, Bird, Speak Again, whose ethnographic framing he co-authored (Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales, lines 76-125).
Details
- Alan Dundes’s foreword gives his biography: B.A. in psychology and economics, Yankton College, South Dakota, 1965; M.A. (1968) and doctorate (1975) in anthropology, University of Hawaii; taught anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1972-1975); chairman of sociology at Birzeit University (1975-1980); at An-Najah National University, dean of the Faculty of Arts (1980-1982) and acting president (1982-1984); from 1984, director of the Birzeit University Research and Documentation Center (Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales, lines 76-125).
- Dundes describes Kanaana as an advisory editor of Heritage and Society and author of several papers on Palestinian folklore in that journal, whose tape renditions of the tales he had collected persuaded Muhawi to pool their talents (Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales, lines 76-125).
Related pages
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales, Ibrahim Muhawi, Alan Dundes, Birzeit University, Galilee