Nomadic societies in the Middle East and North Africa : entering the 21st century /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. |
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| Description: | xliii, 1060 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 81 Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 81 Bd. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5821667 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : nomads of the Middle East and North Africa facing the 21st century / Dawn Chatty
- The nomads of pre-Islamic Arabia / Mohammed Bamyeh
- Last battles of the Bedouin and the rise of modern states in Northern Arabia : 1850-1950 / Antony B. Toth
- The political economy of Middle Eastern and North African pastoral nomads / Emanuel Marx
- Individuals, factions and tribes among Moorish societies / Pierre Bonte
- Are there still tribes in Morocco? / John Shoup
- From the disappearance of 'tribes' to reawakening of the tribal feeling : strategies of state among the formerly Nomadic Bidan (Arabophone) of Mauritania / Mariella Villasante Cervello
- Counting votes that do not count : Negev Bedouin and the Knesset elections of 17th May 1999, Rahat, Israel / Cedric Parizot
- Readapting the Gabila : the Ahamda pastoralists of Central Sudan and the state 'tribal federalism' politics in the mid-1990s / Barbara Casciarri
- Customary law among the Bedouin of the Middle East and North Africa / Frank H. Stewart
- Legal traditions and state-centered law : drawing from tribal and customary law cases of Yemen and Egypt / Baudouin Dupret
- The settlement of pastoral nomads in the Arab Middle East : international organizations and trends in development policies, 1950-1990 / Riccardo Boco
- Integration into modernity : some tribal rural societies in the Bilad ash-Sham / William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster
- New homes, new occupations, new pastoralism : Al Murrah Bedouin, 1968-2003 / Donald P. Cole
- Coping with shrinking spaces : the Ait Unzar pastoralists of South-Eastern Morocco / Barbara Casciarri
- Forced migration, sedentarization and social change : Malian Kel Tamasheq / Sara Randall and Alessandra Giuffrida
- Uncertain livelihoods : challenges facing herding in a Lebanese village / Michelle Obeid
- Multinational oil exploitation and social investment : mobile pastoralists in the Sultanate of Oman / Dawn Chatty
- Language and identity : the perpetuation of dialects / Bruce Ingham
- Art and generosity : thoughts on the aesthetic perceptions of the 'arab / Annegret Nippa
- Facing change in Arabia : the Bedouin community and the notion of development / Ugo Fabietti
- Government interventions and pastoral accommodations : social and economic adaptation to change in agricultural policy in Jordan's Badiya / Alan Rowe
- Land and identity among Awlad 'Ali Bedouin : Egypt's Northwest coast / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole
- A Nomadic fight against immobility : the Tuareg in the modern state / Helene Claudot-Hawad
- Sustainable Nomadism : the case of the Algerian Tuareg / Jeremy H. Keenan
- Desert tourism as a substitute for pastoralism? : Tuareg in Algeria and Bedouin in Jordan / Geraldine Chatelard
- Assumptions of degradation and misuse : the Bedouin in the Syrian Badiya / Dawn Chatty
- Conservation, land and Nomadic pastoralism : seeking solutions in the Wadi 'Araba of Jordan / Alan Rowe
- Guidelines for the involvement of Nomadic pastoralists in conservation and development efforts / Joseph Hobbs
- Integration, modernization, and resistance : Qashqa'i Nomads in Iran since the revolution of 1978-1979 / Julia Huang
- Adaptation of Bedouin in Saudi Arabia to the 21st century : mobility and stasis among the Shararat / Khaled al-Radihan
- A century of education : Bedouin contestation with formal education in Israel / Aref Abu-Rabi'a
- Women's roles, polygyny and cultural transformation in Negev Bedouin townships : a gendered landscape of national resistance to post-colonial conquest and control / Steven C. Dinero
- Sedentarization and changing patterns of social organization amongst the Tuareg of Algeria / Jeremy H. Keenan
- Heroic faces, disruptive deeds : remembering the tribal Shaykh on the Syrian euphrates / Katharina Lange
- Permanent values in a changing world : Bedouin women's tales from North-East Syria / Lidia Bettini
- The inappropriable voice : introducing Bedouin women's oral poetry from the Arabian peninsula / Moneera Al-Ghadeer
- Cassettes and the shifting politics of Awlad 'Ali love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod.