Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Bedouin law from Sinai and the Negev
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| ISBN: | 9780300153255
0300153252
0300153244
9780300153248
9780300153248
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Bedouin Lawfrom Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the worlds leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value.Bailey shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.
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| Other form: | Print version: Bailey, Clinton. Bedouin law from Sinai & the Negev. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300153248
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