Fertile Bonds : Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley /

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A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world. Many married couples in this pastoral community are close relatives - a socially advantageous practice that reflects the deep value Bedouins place on kinship. To outsiders, su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Joseph, Suzanne E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nomadismus
Verwandtschaftssystem
Ehe
Frau
Beduine
Sex role.
Manners and customs.
Fertility, Human.
Families.
Bedouins.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Rôle selon le sexe > Liban > Bekaa (Plaine)
Fecondite humaine > Liban > Bekaa (Plaine)
Familles > Liban > Bekaa (Plaine)
Bedouins > Liban > Bekaa (Plaine)
Sex role > Lebanon > Biqāʿ Valley.
Fertility, Human > Lebanon > Biqāʿ Valley.
Families > Lebanon > Biqāʿ Valley.
Bedouins > Lebanon > Biqāʿ Valley.
al- Bika
Lebanon > Biqāʻ Valley.
Bekaa (Liban : Plaine) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Biqāʿ Valley (Lebanon) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on transliteration
  • Introduction and overview
  • Nomadic lives in transition
  • (Un)stratified reproduction : class, tribe, and culture
  • Gender myths and demographic realities
  • Marriage between kin
  • Population and poverty : a capitalist trap?
  • Class differentiation of demographic regimes
  • Demography on the nomadic periphery
  • Conclusions.

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