Full Description
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.
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
