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Changing Nomads in a Changing World
Anthropologists discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented rate. Joseph Ginat is the author of ""Blood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation and Outcasting"", and Anatoly M. Khazanov is the author of ""Nomads and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Great Scholar, Great Man, Great Friend (Remembering Ernest Gellner)
- Introduction
- 1 Pastoralists in the Contemporary World: The Problem of Survival
- 2 Who are these Nomads? What do they do? Continuous Change or Changing Continuities?
- 3 Being Bedouin: Nomads and Tribes in the Arab Social Imagination
- 4 Coping with Change in Arabia: The Bedouin Community and the Idea of Development
- 5 Bedouin Settlement Policy in Israel, 1964-1996
- 6 Continuing Education and Community Development for Bedouin
- 7 The jôz musarrib: An Unusual Form of Marriage among the Arabs
- 8 The Segmentary Lineage System: A Reappraisal
- 9 The Cactus Was Our Kin: Pastoralism in the Spiny Desert of Southern Madagascar
- 10 The Role of Tribal Groups in State Expansion and Consolidation: The Northern Arabian Peninsula during and after the First World
- 11 The Missing Link: ""Badu"" and ""Tribal"" Honor as Components in the Iraqi Decision to Invade Kuwait
- 12 Preservation and Change in Bedouin Societies in Israel
- 13 Contemporary Mongol Concepts on Being a Pastoralist: Institutional Continuity, Change and Substitutes
- 14 Understanding Reindeer Pastoralism in Modern Siberia: Ecological Continuity versus State Engineering
- List of Contributors
- Index