| Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts Contributor(s): Holes, Clive (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004144943 ISBN-13: 9789004144941 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $186.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: The second volume of this three-volume series provides a fascinating insight into the life, culture and society, in their own words, of Gulf Arabs of the pre-oil generation, covering such subjects as pearl-diving, agriculture, marriage, communal relations, domestic life, and childhood. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 00051896 |
| Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.72" W x 9.6" (1.93 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest. |