Brill Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Ethnographic Texts v. 2 (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East): 51/2

Product Description The second volume of this three-volume series provides a fascinating insight into the life, culture and society, in their own words, of Gulf Arabs of the pre-oil generation, covering such subjects as pearl-diving, agriculture, marriage, communal relations, domestic life, and childhood. About the Author Clive D. Holes, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the Arabic language and its dialects, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.