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...the volume undergoing review is, are told, forthcoming (p. ix). All three of these publications are based on pioneering fieldwork accomplished by the author on the island state of Bahrain during 1977-78 and in the Sultanate of Oman from 1985-87. The approximately 100 uneducated speakers, aged forty and older at the time of recording, spoke into tape recorders on Bahraini history, marriage, customs, family life, popular culture, agriculture, fishing, and pearl-diving, among other ethnographic topics. The fifty-five excellent published texts of thirty-nine speakers (thirteen 'arab, "indigenous Bahraini Sunnis"...
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