TY - CHAP

T1 - Harvesting the Sea in Central Monsoon Dhofar and al-Mahrah

AU - Watson, Janet CE

AU - Baquir, Said

AU - Morris, Miranda J

AU - Moore, Alec

PY - 2025/2/5

Y1 - 2025/2/5

N2 - This chapter discusses aspects of harvesting the sea along the central coastline of monsoon Dhofar and to the east of this region, with some mention of al-Mahrah in eastern Yemen. The chapter is based on fieldwork with Śḥerɛ̄t and Mehri speakers. Fieldwork was conducted by Watson together with Alec Moore in 2014, and, on three separate occasions, by Watson alone in early 2014, late 2015 and late 2016. It is told through the voices of fishers and through Watson’s diary and fieldnotes. Notes from Watson’s fieldwork conducted in al-Ġayḏ̣ah, Yemen in 2013 are also referenced. The chapter is followed by transcribed, translated and annotated audio and audio-video texts, with references to the original recordings in the Shehret and Mehri Endangered Languages Archives (ELAR, Borealis Dataverse) where available. The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Shehret | Endangered Languages Archive (elararchive.org) and The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Mehri | Endangered Languages Archive (elararchive.org). The media files are also available through Borealis, housed at Carleton University Harvesting the Sea in Central Monsoon Dhofar and al-Mahrah media files - Arabian Peninsula Languages Dataverse (borealisdata.ca).

AB - This chapter discusses aspects of harvesting the sea along the central coastline of monsoon Dhofar and to the east of this region, with some mention of al-Mahrah in eastern Yemen. The chapter is based on fieldwork with Śḥerɛ̄t and Mehri speakers. Fieldwork was conducted by Watson together with Alec Moore in 2014, and, on three separate occasions, by Watson alone in early 2014, late 2015 and late 2016. It is told through the voices of fishers and through Watson’s diary and fieldnotes. Notes from Watson’s fieldwork conducted in al-Ġayḏ̣ah, Yemen in 2013 are also referenced. The chapter is followed by transcribed, translated and annotated audio and audio-video texts, with references to the original recordings in the Shehret and Mehri Endangered Languages Archives (ELAR, Borealis Dataverse) where available. The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Shehret | Endangered Languages Archive (elararchive.org) and The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Mehri | Endangered Languages Archive (elararchive.org). The media files are also available through Borealis, housed at Carleton University Harvesting the Sea in Central Monsoon Dhofar and al-Mahrah media files - Arabian Peninsula Languages Dataverse (borealisdata.ca).

U2 - 10.11647/obp.0409.05

DO - 10.11647/obp.0409.05

M3 - Chapter

SP - 341

EP - 422

BT - Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia

PB - University of Cambridge

ER -