EDITOR: Gasparini, Fabio; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-8695; Freie Universität BerlinEDITOR: Russell, Kamala; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0907-1580; University of ChicagoEDITOR: Watson, Janet C.E.; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2922-2964; University of LeedsGasparini, FabioRussell, KamalaWatson, Janet C.E.2024-11-072024-11-072024-10-179781805113379978180511338697818051133931266d1e4-0cfb-41ae-a21a-6bb3d78826a1https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0411https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/812Publication status: ACTIVEThis 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.Embargo: noneFOR002000HIS026010LAN0090102CSR5PB-AA-ACFBCFFNHTBPJ7052Cambridge Semitic Languages and CulturesHistoryLinguisticsArabian PeninsulaCommunity-based collaborationCultural studiesDiversityInterdisciplinary approachesLinguistic endangermenthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f332024-11-07