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

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 con...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 51/2
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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.
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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.