"Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe
"[Caton's] linguistic and poetic analyses are thorough and pointed, without belaboring the fluid prose of his ethnography. . . . Caton goes a long way to demonstrate that oral literature is not merely reflective, but is constitutive of ideology and worldview. . . . [He] has done a superb job of persuading us of the power of poetry in social creation."--Deborah A. Kapchan, "Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin