{"product_id":"dialect-culture-and-society-in-eastern-arabia-volume-2-ethnographic-texts-9789004464544","title":"Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDialect, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210823622999,"sku":"9789004464544","price":47.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dialect-culture-and-society-in-eastern-arabia-volume-2-ethnographic-texts-9789004464544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}