Contents:
This volume reflects Eduard Glaser's ethnographical entries in his diaries I, II,III, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, with Walter Dostal (1928-2011) providing a commentary on each entry (p. 117 ff.).
The commentary is intended to facilitate the use of those diary records and is of interest to ethnologists, orientalists, geographers and economic historians.
Topics covered include:
- agriculture: irrigation, crops such as qat and tobacco, livestock and animal husbandry (sheep & pigeon rearing, beekeeping), nutrition, use of frankincense and myrrh...
- social stratification: underprivileged groups, tribal society, situation of the Jews...
- popular religion: veneration of saints,...
- information on Ṣanʿāʾ and its population
- description of settlements: Sūdah, Kawkabān, Ḍofrān, Ḥāz, Ẓafār, Taʿizz,...
- political environment of the Yemen in the 1880ies
- information on the Ismāʿīlīyah
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