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Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs: Iran

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Author(s): Goldstein , Judith L.
In the 1940s, Lawrence Elwell-Sutton collected and transcribed the stories of Mashdī Galīn Khānum, a storyteller who had memorized “an inexhaustible fund of folktales to suit every mood and occasion” (Mashdī Galīn Khānum 1950, Elwell-Sutton 1982, 102). Impressive feats of memory have traditionally been among the skills developed by some illiterate…