New publication – Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature
New Open Access book, Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature edited by Fabio Gasparini, Kamala Russell, and Janet Watson.
About the Book
This edited volume brings together a diverse and rich set of contributions on the Arabian Peninsula. Ranging from history, field linguistics, and cultural studies these essays address the diversity of languages, ways of life, and natural environments that have marked the region throughout its history.
The book stems from the intellectual exchange and collaboration fostered by a virtual workshop that met regularly in 2020-21 and which drew participants from within and beyond the academy. The contributions gathered in this volume highlight the need for a better understanding of a region that hosts a vast amount of culturally and linguistically diverse material, often in a precarious state of conservation.
Diversity Across the Arabian Peninsula argues for the importance of holistic, community-based, and interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic endangerment and deep social and cultural changes: there is no documentation of language without attention to language use, the material lifeworld and its ecology, and social and cultural setting. Such research is enriched and made more impactful through collaboration with communities and scholars from the Global South. The essays in this volume thus spearhead a contextualized study of South Arabian linguistic varieties and their connection with the natural and cultural world they inhabit.
This is the 28th volume published as part of our Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, published in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. You can access other titles in the series at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/series/2632-6914.
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