Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts / / Clive Holes.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 51/2
• VerfasserIn: Holes, Clive
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 51/2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

General Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Volume II: Ethnographic Texts -- Introduction: texts and text types -- Map 1 and key -- Map 2 and key -- Index of Speakers and Texts -- Language Notes -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- References -- Chapter 1: Pearl Diving -- Chapter 2: Agriculture -- Chapter 3: Communal Relations -- Chapter 4: Marriage -- Chapter 5: Domestic Life -- Chapter 6: Childhood -- Chapter 7: Work -- Chapter 8: SawAlif -- Appendices -- 1A Hull shapes of pearling boats -- 1B Boat parts -- 1C Sails, masts, and rigging -- Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol I.