Harvesting the sea in Southeastern Arabia : Volume 1: regional studies / Janet C. E. Watson, Miranda J. Morris, and Erik Anonby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abbreviations and Symbols

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Maps

Main Contributors

Introduction

Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia: Introduction

Part I: Harvesting the Sea on the Musandam Peninsula

A Typology of Fish Names in Kumzari

Mṣaww wa Maḥḥar: The Sea in Kumzari Poetry

Three Arabic Fishing Songs from the Musandam Peninsula

1. Introduction

2. Ayāllā ‘O God’

3. Xəbbāṭ ‘Little Kingfish’

4. Lā Ramētə ‘I Will Not Give It Up’

5. Conclusion and Reflections

References

Part II: Harvesting the Sea among the Baṭāḥira

Harvesting the Sea among the Bəṭāḥira

Part III: Harvesting the Sea in Central Monsoon Dhofar and al-Mahrah

Harvesting the Sea in Central Monsoon Dhofar and al-Mahrah

Part IV: Harvesting the Sea in Soqoṭra

Harvesting the Sea in Soqoṭra

Index

Traditional livelihoods and the ecosystems that sustain them are dying out around the world. This book is a collection of research on the relationships between people, their environment, their expertise and their languages along the ecologically fragile coasts of the Arabian Peninsula. These studies are the outcome of many years of collaborative fieldwork with local communities in three main regions of southern and eastern Arabia: the Musandam Peninsula, Dhofar and al-Mahrah, and the island of Soqotra. Bringing together oral literature, traditional scientific knowledge, and marine subsistence at the peripheries of the Arabian seaboard, the volume makes a major contribution to the documentation of the indigenous Modern South Arabian languages (MSAL), regional Arabic, and the Kumzari language, as well as to a greater understanding of their speakers' mastery in harvesting the seas. Diverse contributions by scholars and language community members explore the songs and stories, experiences and viewpoints of indigenous fishers, and shed light on the cultural significance of the maritime species encountered by each community. This book is a testimony to resilient ways of life, many of which have vanished, but which at the same time may offer unique answers for the future of humanity.

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