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Culture Change in a Bedouin Tribe : The 'arab al-?gerat, Lower Galilee, A.D. 1790-1977 /
Viable systems; ethnicity, ethnic boundaries, and the articulation of an ethnic minority in a pluralistic context including state administration; "cultural" versus "power" brokerage; and the rise of patronage in a tribal context.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
<<The>> Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Viable systems; ethnicity, ethnic boundaries, and the articulation of an ethnic minority in a pluralistic context including state administration; "cultural" versus "power" brokerage; and the rise of patronage in a tribal context. State economy, with major effects in all aspects of its culture. In accord with the cybernetic perception of culture as an integrated system of material, social, and symbolic elements, an attempt is made to follow the mutually causal inter-relatedness of these changes in reference to events and processes occurring in the regional and state milieus, in order to gain a better general understanding of culture change. Several related issues are extensively developed notably: the organization of cultures as. The present dissertation describes and analyses the growth of the 'Arab al-Hjerat from a small short-range nomadic bedouin herding camp at the end of the eighteenth century to its 1977 regional prominence. During this period the tribe increased in size from 3-5 nuclear households to over 3,500 members and centralized its leadership while adapting under three successive regimes--Ottoman, British, and Israeli, --to sedentary neighbors and life, market-oriented production, wage labor, and an industrial. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (344 pages): Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten. |
| ISBN: | 9781949098754 |