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  • 1
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    Southeastern Europe (from 1974-)
    Leiden : Brill | [Paderborn] : Ferdinand Schöningh | Pittsburgh, Pa. : Univ. Center | Idyllwild, Calif. : Schlacks ; 1.1974 - 15.1988; 16.1989(1997) - 17.1990(2000); 18/28.1991/2001(2002) -
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    ISSN: 0094-4467 , ISSN 1876-3332
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 cm
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 - 15.1988; 16.1989(1997) - 17.1990(2000); 18/28.1991/2001(2002) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Southeastern Europe
    DDC: 949.6005
    Keywords: Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Philologie ; Gesellschaft ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Südosteuropa ; Zeitschrift ; Südosteuropa ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Südosteuropa ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Philologie ; DE-605
    Note: Beteil. Körp. anfangs: University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh; 7.1980: Arizona State University; 11.1984 - 12.1985: California State University Bakersfield; 14.1987: The University of Utah; 15.1988: The College of Humanities, University of Utah
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  • 2
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    The world and US social forums : a better world is possible and necessary (2008)
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    ISBN: 9047442873 , 9789047442875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 248 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.209172/4
    Keywords: World Social Forum ; Weltsozialforum / Weltsozialforum ; World Social Forum ; Weltsozialforum ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Internationale Kooperation ; Gesellschaft ; Globalisierung ; Weltwirtschaft ; Social movements International cooperation ; Anti-globalization movement International cooperation ; International economic relations ; Democracy ; Globalization Social aspects ; Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Internationale Kooperation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weltsozialforum ; Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Internationale Kooperation
    Note: "Originally published, in part, as Volume 3, No. 1 (2008) of Brill's journal Societies without borders"--Page 4 of cover. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Preface: Why Write about the World Social Forum (Immanuel Wallerstein); Introduction (Marina Karides and Judith Blau); PART I SOCIAL FORUM PROCESS: THE USSF AND ITS RELATION TO THE WSF; 1. In Defense of World Social Forum VII (Marina Karides and Thomas Ponniah); 2. The US Social Forum: Building from the Bottom Up (Michael Leon Guerrero); 3. New Politics Emerging at the US Social Forum (Jackie Smith, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Christopher Hausmann) , The WSF/USSF is an expression of the people's struggles to advance alternatives to the world-as-we-know-it. It provides a large space for groups to mobilize, voice their oppression, exchange ideas, and express their desire for hope and another world. This book captures a range of topics dealing with the WSF/USSF.
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  • 3
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    Modern Ladakh : anthropological perspectives on continuity and change (2008)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789047443346 , 9047443349
    Language: English , French
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 311 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library 1568-6183 v. 20
    Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library v. 20
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Modern Ladakh
    DDC: 305.8954
    Keywords: Ladakhi (South Asian people) Social conditions ; Ladakhi (South Asian people) Case studies ; Ladakhi (South Asian people) Social conditions ; Ladakhi (South Asian people) Case studies ; Social Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ladakhi (South Asian people) ; Social conditions ; Gesellschaft ; Case studies ; Case studies ; Ladākh (India) Social conditions ; Ladakh ; Ladākh (India) Social conditions ; Ladakh ; India ; Ladākh ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Arguing for the need to situate Ladakh in a South Asian context, albeit not neglecting its ties with Tibet, this volume brings together empirical studies from the region to analyse the change and continuity resulting from colonialism, independence and modernisation
    Abstract: Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957-26 August 2004 / Sophie Day -- Corvée transport labour in 19th and early 20th century Ladakh: a study in continuity and change / John Bray -- Carpet weaving Ladakh and the influence of Sonam Paljor / Monisha Ahmed -- Urbanisation in Kargil and its effects in the Suru valley / Nicola Grist -- Distant neighbours either side of the Omasi La : the Zanskarpa and the Bod communities of Paldar / Isabelle Riaboff -- Calculs pour l'ouverture de la bouche de la terre: étude du temps, géomancie et art divinatoire au Ladakh / Pascale Dollfus -- Small shoes and painted faces: possession states and empbodiment in Buddhist Ladakh / Martin A. Mills -- Reformulating ingredients: outlines of a contemporary ritual for the consecration of medicines in Ladakh / Laurent Pordié -- Dancing in the face of death: Losar celebration in Photoksar / Fernanda Pirie -- Groupes d'unifiliation, parenté et societé à maison au Ladakh (le phaspun) / Patrick Kaplanian -- Women's narrative life histories: implications for maternal and child health in Ladakh / Nancy P. Chin, Tim Dye and Richard Lee -- Land use, land administration and land right in Shigar, Baltistan / Matthias Schmidt -- The introduction of modern chemical fertiliser to the Zangskar valley, Ladakh, and its effects on agricultural productivity, soil quality and Zangskari society / J. Seb Mankelow -- Changing currents: an ethnography of the traditional irrigation practices of Leh town / Sunandan Tiwari and Radhika Gupta.
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  • 4
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    Imagining the good life : negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya (2008)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9004167870 , 9047443373 , 9789004167872 , 9789047443377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: Social sciences in Asia v. 20
    DDC: 306.3095496
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    LB 40390
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Culture ; Culture and globalization ; Economic development / Social aspects ; Economic history ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Social history ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialgeschichte ; Wirtschaft. Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Economic development Social aspects ; Culture ; Culture and globalization ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Tibeter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Langtang ; Langtang ; Tibeter ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index
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  • 5
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    Conflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia (2008)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789047442592 , 9047442598
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vi, 271 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library 1568-6183 v. 21
    Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library v. 21
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Conflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia
    DDC: 305.800951
    Keywords: Social structure Case studies ; Asia, Central ; Social structure Case studies ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Social conflict Case studies ; Asia, Central ; Social conflict Case studies ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Social conflict Case studies ; Social conflict Case studies ; Social structure Case studies ; Social structure Case studies ; Social Science ; Social conflict ; Social conditions ; Social structure ; Gesellschaft ; Politischer Konflikt ; Sozialstruktur ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Case studies ; Asia, Central Case studies ; Social conditions ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Case studies ; Social conditions ; Tibet ; Zentralasien ; Asia, Central ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Case studies Social conditions ; Asia, Central Case studies Social conditions ; Central Asia ; Tibet ; Zentralasien ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Electronic books Case studies ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the agency of those who shape and manipulate conflict and social order and their historical, cultural and religious resources, the editors discuss evidence o
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  • 6
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    East meets West : civilizational encounters and the spirit of capitalism in East Asia (2007)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 904742123X , 9789047421238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Social sciences in Asia v. 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3/42095
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Capitalism / Social aspects ; Social change ; Kapitalisme ; Waarden ; Moderniteit ; Culturele invloeden ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kapitalismus ; Gesellschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Social change ; Capitalism Social aspects ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kapitalismus ; Ostasien ; Ostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ostasien ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kapitalismus
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Acknowledgements; Introduction (Kyong-Dong Kim and Hyun-Chin); PART ONE CIVILIZATIONAL ENCOUNTERS; Chapter One Reflections upon the Dilemmas of Civilization: The Wisdom of Yin-Yang Dialectics (Kyong-Dong Kim); Chapter Two How the East and the West Shall Meet (Nan Lin); Chapter Three What the West Has Learned from the East in the Twentieth Century (Andrzej Flis); Chapter Four Modernization: Westernization vs. Nationalism: A Historical Overview of the Japanese Case (Akihiro Ishikawa); Chapter Five The Role of Human Sciences in the Dialogue among Civilizations (Syed Farid Alatas) , Over the years, East Asia developments in terms of production, population and trade have shown remarkable dynamics. This book deals with the issues of Asian values, civilizational encounters between East and West, and the development of capitalism and its culture in East Asian countries
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    Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9004156968 , 9047421035 , 9789004156968 , 9789047421030
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 344 pages)
    Series Statement: African dynamics 6
    DDC: 302.096
    Keywords: Since 1960 ; Geschichte ; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; Social history ; Agency theorie ; Sociale verandering ; Gestaltungsfreiheit ; Handlungskompetenz ; Handlungsfähigkeit ; Politik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialgeschichte ; Soziale Situation ; Gesellschaft ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Soziale Situation
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references , 6 Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La transformation des relations domestiques dans les ménages des Congolais de la diaspora (Julie Ndaya)7 From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals (Thomas Widlok); 8 The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Otrude N. Moyo); 9 Images of Africa: Agency and nature con , Drawing on a range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint , One paper in French
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    Impersonal power : history and theory of the Bourgeois State (2007)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9047421523 , 9789047421528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 803 pages)
    Series Statement: Historical materialism book series 15
    Uniform Title: Subjektlose Gewalt
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.5/20941
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes ; Elite (Social sciences) ; Power (Social sciences) ; Staatsvorming ; Burgerij ; Sociale aspecten ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Elite (Social sciences) History ; Power (Social sciences) History ; Elite (Social sciences) History ; Power (Social sciences) History ; Entwicklung ; Staatsgewalt ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; England ; England ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Staatsgewalt ; Entwicklung ; Frankreich
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-789) and index , Preface to the English Edition; Part One The Rise of Bourgeois States: Preconditions for an Explanation; 1. Miracles, for example; 2. States in general, 'bourgeois' states in particular; 3. Examples of explanatory approaches; 4. False conclusions from structural analysis; 5. Pitfalls in historical comparison; 6. Advice on reading; Part Two From Ancien Régime to Bourgeois State: England; 'How then did they do it?'; Chapter One English Feudalism: Appropriation by Land Lordship and Force of Arms under Feudally Generalised Royal Power; Chapter Two The Ancien Régime in England
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    The king of drinks : schnapps gin from modernity to tradition (2007)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 904743059X , 9789047430599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 pages)
    Series Statement: African social studies series v. 18
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 394.1/2
    RVK:
    LC 10525
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-2000 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions ; Jenever ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Gin Social aspects ; Gin History ; Gin History ; Gin ; Niederlande ; Nigeria ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Gin ; Geschichte 1880-2000 ; Ghana ; Gin ; Geschichte 1880-2000
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index , List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: foreign imports, local meanings; 2. The Rise of Gin; 3. Becoming the King of Drinks; 4. 'Bird gin' and 'money gin': brands and marketing; 5. Poison or medicine? Changing perceptions of Dutch gin; 6. 'Your very good health!' Gin for an independent West Africa; 7. Schnapps gin from modernity to tradition; Bibliography; Index , Using a focus on the trajectory of commoditisation of gin in West Africa, this book investigates how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. It shows that local consumers, not foreign advertisers, produced the importance of schnapps gin for Africa
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    Local and global : social transformation in Southeast Asia : essays in honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas (2005)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 1429451548 , 9781429451543
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 341 p.)
    Series Statement: Social sciences in Asia v. 3
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    DDC: 306.4/2/0959
    Keywords: 2000 - 2099 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Sociale verandering ; Intellectuelen ; Godsdienst ; Culturele waarden ; Civilization ; Globalization / Social aspects ; Intellectual life ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion ; Social change ; Gesellschaft ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Sozialer Wandel ; Social change ; Globalization Social aspects ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Südostasien
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Social change and development -- Sociology of intellectuals -- Sociology of religion and values
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    Dialect, culture, and society in eastern Arabia, Volume 2, Ethnographic texts (2005)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789047407959 , 9047407954 , 9781433706318 , 1433706318 , 1280868457 , 9781280868450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 v.)
    Series Statement: Handbuch der Orientalistik 51. Bd
    DDC: 306.44/095365
    Keywords: Sociolinguistique / Bahreïn ; Arabe (Langue) / Dialectes / Bahreïn ; Arabe (Langue) / Aspect social / Bahreïn ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ; Dialecten ; Arabisch ; Etnografie ; Gesellschaft ; Linguistik ; Mundart ; Sociolinguistics ; Arabic language Dialects ; Arabic language Social aspects
    Note: Paralleltitel: Dialect, culture, & society in eastern Arabia , Includes bibliographical references and index , Cover -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Volume II58; Ethnographic Texts -- Introduction58; texts and text types -- Map 1 and key -- Map 2 and key -- Index of Speakers and Texts -- Language Notes -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- References -- Chapter 158; Pearl Diving -- Texts -- Text 158; the daily routine -- Text 258; 39;the year of the sinking39; -- Text 358; jellyfish -- Text 458; ginn on the sea45;bed -- Text 558; the end of the tar353;a -- Boat45;builders39; jargon -- Proverbs -- Pearl diving in vernacular poetry58; munadarat il45;gos wa manabi39; in45;nift 39;The Debate of Pearl Diving and Oil Wells39; -- Chapter 258; Agriculture -- Texts -- Text 1 -- Text 2 -- Text 3 -- Text 4 -- Text 5 -- Text 6 -- Farming aphorisms -- Agriculture in vernacular poetry58; 39;Adari 39;39;Adhari39; -- Chapter 358; Communal Relations -- Texts -- Text 158; the 39;Battle of 39;Ali39; 40;I41; -- Text 258; the 39;Battle of 39;Ali39; 40;II41; -- , - Text 358; a bolt45;hole in Iraq -- Text 458; farming for the Sheikh -- Chapter 458; Marriage -- Texts -- Text 158; traditional weddings58; the city 40;I41; -- Text 258; traditional weddings58; the city 40;II41; -- Text 358; the matchmaker -- Text 458; traditional weddings8212;a village -- Text 558; taking the rough with the smooth -- Text 658; reflections of an old man -- Chapter 558; Domestic Life -- Texts -- Text 158; village reminiscences 40;I41; -- Text 258; village reminiscences 40;II41; -- Text 358; meals at home -- Text 458; illness and its treatment -- Text 558; peddlers -- Text 658; childbirth -- Text 758; everyday dress in Manama -- Text 858; everyday dress in a Baharna village -- Text 958; clothes for special occasions and jewellery -- Text 1058; ramadan -- Domestic life in vernacular poetry58; allah yigazik ya zaman 39;God punish you44; o time33;39; -- Chapter 658; Childhood -- 39;Id al45;39;Adha58; Hiyya Biyya8212;a children39;s 39;sacrifice39; ritual -- Text 1 -- , - Text 2 -- Ramadan58; Garga39;un 47; Greg353;on8212;a Gulf version of 39;trick or treat39; -- Text 3 -- Text 4 -- Koran school -- Text 5 -- Text 6 -- Text 7 -- Text 8 -- Text 9 -- Children39;s games -- Girls39; games -- Text 10 -- Text 11 -- Text 12 -- Text 13 -- Boys39; games -- Text 14 -- Chapter 758; Work -- Texts -- Text 158; when BAPCO first opened -- Text 258; a misunderstanding -- Text 358; a good boss -- Text 458; stone45;cutting8212;a shipwreck -- Text 558; coastal fishing -- Text 658; working for the Water Board -- Chapter 858; Sawalif -- Texts -- Text 158; village fires -- Text 258; a poem and its meaning -- Text 358; riddles and jokes -- Text 458; religious obligations and social mores -- Appendices -- 1A Hull shapes of pearling boats -- 1B Boat parts -- 1C Sails44; masts44; and rigging -- Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol I -- Last Page , "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 I: 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 II: 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 III will comprise a detailed study of the linguistic structure of the dialects in their regional context
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