Author: Emrys L. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052138561X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.

Author: E E (Edward Evan) Evans-Pritchard
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014370303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520965981
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.

Author: Emanuel Marx
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857459325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid mountains that provide limited pastures and lack arable soils and must derive much of their income from migrant labor and trade. Still, every household maintains, at considerable expense, a small orchard and a minute flock of goats and sheep. The orchards and flocks sustain them in times of need and become the core of a mutual assurance system. It is for this social security that Bedouin live in and retire to the mountains. Based on fieldwork over ten years, this book builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated into urban society and part of the modern global world.

Author: Ruth First
Publisher: Africana Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Austin Kennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521230837
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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An introduction to the traditions of Bedouin law intended to dispel myths that have developed in western society.

Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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(BAR S236, 1985)

Author: Robert S. G. Fletcher
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191045551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism and of the region's past. It tells the story of what happened when the British Empire and Bedouin communities met on the desert frontiers between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. It traces the workings of the resulting practices of 'desert administration' from their origins in the wake of one World War to their eclipse after the next, as British officials, Bedouin shaykhs, and nationalist politicians jostled to influence desert affairs. Drawn to the commanding heights of political society in the region's towns and cities, historians have tended to afford frontier 'margins' merely marginal treatment. Instead, this volume combines the study of imperialism, nomads, and the desert itself to reveal the centrality of 'desert administration' to the working of Britain's empire, repositioning neglected frontier areas as nerve centres of imperial activity. British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question ' leads the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that have long been obscured.

Author: Dawn Chatty
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.

Author: Mirjam de Bruijn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047421035
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. Agency directs our quest for an understanding of the dynamics and social transformations of African situations to the domains of creativity, inventiveness and reflexivity. It emphasizes the possibilities individuals and social groups perceive when faced with the constraints that tend to mark African social life. The case studies provide an alternative view of people and society in Africa by looking at the ways social strength is created in the hope of overcoming many of the structural limitations encountered in daily life. 'Strength beyond Structure' challenges the optimism that is engrained in the development rhetoric about Africa by making agency the subject of empirical scrutiny.