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This book explores various aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations). It also depicts those who contribute to the institution of marriage (that is, husbands and wives), and analyses their nature, qualities, attributes and behaviours as revealed through such anti-proverbs. In addition, the text investigates those who remain single and do not belong to the institution of marriage, but contribute to the institution of marriage. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the casually interested general reader to the paremiologist, paremiographer, lexicographer, and anthropologist.

In the 1995/96 academic year, twenty-five Egyptian Nubian students of the Faculty of Social Work in Aswan were recruited by Dr. Muddathir Salim to complete a brief Nubian ethnological survey, largely restricted to the area of New Nubia, over a period of several months. They documented Egyptian Nubian culture and heritage, among them proverbs, tales, lullabies, marriage customs, and moulid and mourning songs, as well as models of Nubian clothes, jewelry, and houses.

This research has culminated in Maher Habbob's Nubian Proverbs, which presents the fruits of decades of collecting proverbs from his native Nubian region in Fadijja (Nobiin). The five hundred proverbs gathered in this volume give a vivid picture of the Nubian imagination and represent a priceless archive of cultural heritage threatened by ongoing assimilation and cultural genocide.

The proverbs are presented in Nubian script, accompanied by a transliteration in Roman script, an a literal translation and paraphrase in English.

Part I --1.Women in American Proverbs --2.Anti-Proverbs --Part II --3.A Woman's Nature as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --4."Give a Girl Enough Rope and She'll Ring the Wedding Bell": The Nature of Young Women, Girls, Daughters and Brides as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --5."Spinsters Live Longer Than Married Women Because Where There's Hope There's Life": Spinsters as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --6."Behind Every Man Who Lives Within His Income Is a Wife Who Doesn't": The Figure of Wife as Portrayed in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --7."Many a Widow Finds It Easy to Marry Again Because Dead Men Tell No Tales": Widows as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --8."On the Matrimonial Sea, the Hand That Rocks the Cradle Very Seldom Rocks the Boat": Mothers as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --9."When the Mother-In-Law Comes in at the Door, Love Flies Out of the Window": The Mother-in-Law as Reflected in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --10."You Know a Bad Beginning Makes a Good Endin'," as the Old Woman Said: Generic Old Women as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --Part III --11."The Breasts on the Other Side of the Fence Look Greener": Women's Sexuality as Revealed Through Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs --12."Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job-Send a Woman": Female Professions and Occupations.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas) -- Part I. From the paremiological core to actual use of proverbs -- Chapter 2. Terms of a paremiological minimum and a paremiological core in the current paremiology (Marina Kotova) -- Chapter 3. Matti Kuusi's typology in the light of contemporary use of proverbs (Outi Lauhakangas) -- Chapter 4. Paremiological equivalence: a comparative study (Harald Ulland & Izabela Dixon) -- Part II. Problems of cultural differences -- Chapter 5. Logico-Semiotic classification of Somali proverbs (Georgy Kapchits) -- Chapter 6. Hungarian proverbial parallels of the Russian paremiological core with different imagery (Irina Zimonyi-Kalinyina) -- Chapter 7. Bulgarian proverbs with contradictory opposition and their English parallels (Nadezhda B. Ershova) -- Part III. Ethnonyms in proverbs -- Chapter 8. Proverbs with ethnonyms in Czech and English languages (Оlesya S. Sergienko) -- Chapter 9. Belorussian proverbs with ethnonyms and proper names (Marina Yu. Kotova & Natalia E. Boeva) -- Chapter 10. Conclusion (Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas). .

Proverbs supposedly contain the wisdom of the common folk-eternal truths to be passed down through the ages. They are short, often humorous, expressions that teach lessons or give practical advice, and they are perhaps the best indicators of attitudes and beliefs of any form of folklore. Not only reflecting culture, proverbs also perpetuate the cultural dictates of the past, including the fears, prejudices, and misconceptions of their predominately male authors. Because they are generalizations, proverbs sometimes impede accurate observation and analysis and stifle original thought. Like many

Intro -- À propos de Collection XIX -- Titre -- INTRODUCTION -- VÉRITÉS MORALES -- PRINCIPES GÉNÉRAUX. -- TERRES ET LABOURS -- SAISONS ET PRONOSTICS -- CALENDRIER MENSUEL - DU CULTIVATEUR -- JANVIER -- FÉVRIER -- MARS -- AVRIL -- MAI -- JUIN -- JUILLET -- AOUT -- SEPTEMBRE -- OCTOBRE -- NOVEMBRE -- DÉCEMBRE -- FOURRAGES ET BESTIAUX -- VIGNES -- ARBRES -- HYGIÈNE -- CONCLUSION -- TEXTE EN LANGUE VULGAIRE DES PROVERBES CITÉS ET CLASSÉS DANS LES CHAPITRES PRÉCÉDENTS -- Ier - VÉRITÉS MORALES -- II - PRINCIPES GÉNÉRAUX -- III - TERRES ET LABOURS -- IV - SAISONS ET PRONOSTICS -- V - FOURRAGES ET BESTIAUX -- VI - VIGNES -- VII - ARBRES -- VIII - HYGIÈNE -- Note au lecteur -- Page de titre de l'édition imprimée -- Copyright