Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts

Author/Creator:

Holes, Clive author

Publication/Creation:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

1st ed.

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

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

Series Titles:

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

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Arabic (Language)--Dialects--Bahrain
Arabic (Language)--Social aspect--Bahrain
Sociolinguistics

Description/Summary

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.

Summary:

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.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936529598202486

ISBN:

1-280-86845-7
9786610868452
90-474-0795-4
1-4337-0631-8

OCLC Number:

171561881
191945023

Other Identifiers:

DOI: 10.1163/9789047407959