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Anna Oldfield, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature and postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies, recently published a book titled Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.
 
The book provides a study of Azerbaijani women ashiqs and their participation and contributions to the poet-minstrel tradition in their country. Her analysis is based on interviews, field recordings, oral histories, participant observation, and research, and she discusses the origins of the tradition, characteristics of the genre, and individual performers from the eighteenth century to the present. The study is aimed at women's studies and oral literature scholars. It is based on Oldfield's dissertation.

The book, published by Edwin Mellen Press, was released on November 9.

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