Description
Book SynopsisDialect, 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 ContentsGeneral 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
