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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Vol. II: Ethnographic Texts (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
Dialect Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia Vol II Ethnographic Texts - Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East 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 background essays... more », 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