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Dialect Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia Glossary - Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik
Author: 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 II: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed bac...  more »kground 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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9789004107632
ISBN-10: 9004107630
Publication Date: 6/1/2000
Pages: 573
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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