Author: Michael E. MeekerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521220743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the intersection between art and life among the Bedouins and its implications for Orientalists.
Literature and Violence in North Arabia
Author: Michael E. MeekerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521220743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the intersection between art and life among the Bedouins and its implications for Orientalists.
Anthropology of Violence and Conflict
Author: Bettina SchmidtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134584326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Most importantly this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict in the world today.
The Cambridge Ancient History
Author: Averil CameronPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521325912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Volume 14 concludes the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History.
The Shi'is of Iraq
Author: Yitzhak NakashPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691190445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis and Shi'is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis and Shi'is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, and it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule and to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century and illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq.
Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin
Author: Kobi PeledPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Kobi Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments, states of mind and worldviews.
Writers and Rebels
Author: Rebecca Ruth GouldPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300200641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Appendix II: Georgian Text of Titsian Tabidze, "Gunib" -- Chronology of Texts, Authors, and Events -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies
Author: H. David BrumblePublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 178308782X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies is a study of the autobiographies of tribal-warrior cultures in North America, the Amazon, the Orinoco Basin, the highlands of Luzon, the island of Alor — of headhunters, women, Apaches, New Guinea big men and a Yanomami captive. The book also discusses tribal-warrior autobiographies closer to home: Colton Simpson’s Inside the Crips, Mona Ruiz’s Two Badges, Nathan McCall’s Makes Me Wanna Holler and Sanyika Shakur’s Monster, autobiographies that remember gangbanging at a time when there were close to 500 gang-related homicides a year in Los Angeles—a time when gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to the tribal-warrior cultures right in the asphalt heart of American cities. Grisly, probing and resonant with the voices of generations of fighters, Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies is an unsettling work of cross-disciplinary scholarship.
Golden Roads: Migration,pilgrimage
Author: Ian Richard NettonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040287638
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia.
Golden Roads
Author: Ian Richard NettonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113579927X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order embracing much of Africa and Eurasia.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 3:2
Author: Lois Lumya’ al FaruqiPublisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.