Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa : Entering the 21st Century /

A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the 'nation-state' of the 20th and 21s...

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Other Authors: Chatty, Dawn (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 81.
Brill's Companions to Middle East and Islamic Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004389243.

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Call Number: GN387

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Dawn Chatty
  • Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa Facing the 21st Century /
  • Dawn Chatty
  • The Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia /
  • Mohammed A. Bamyeh
  • Last Battles of the Bedouin and the Rise of Modern States in Northern Arabia: 1850-1950 /
  • Anthony 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 Bidān (Arabophone) of Mauritania /
  • Mariella Villasante Cervello
  • Counting Votes That Do Not Count: Negev Bedouin and the Knesset Elections of May 17 1999, Rahat, Israel /
  • Cédric Parizot
  • Readapting the Gabīla: The Ahāmda 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 Bocco
  • Integration Into Modernity: Some Tribal Rural Societies in the Bilād ash-Shām /
  • William and Fidelity Lancaster
  • New Homes, New Occupations, New Pastoralism: Al Murrah Bedouin, 1968-2003 /
  • Donald P. Cole
  • Coping with Shrinking Spaces: the Ait Unzār 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 ʿarab /
  • 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 Bādiya /
  • Alan Rowe
  • Land and Identity among Awlad 'Ali Bedouin: Egypt's /
  • Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole
  • A Nomadic Fight against Immobility: the Tuareg in the Modern State /
  • Hélène 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 /
  • Géraldine Chatelard
  • Assumptions of Degradation and Misuse: The Bedouin in the Syrian Bādiya /
  • Dawn Chatty
  • Conservation, Land and Nomadic Pastoralism: Seeking Solutions in the Wadi ʿAraba of Jordan /
  • Alan Rowe
  • Guidelines for the Involvement of Nomadic Pastoralists in Conservation and Development Efforts /
  • Joseph J. Hobbs
  • Integration, Modernization, and Resistance: Qashqaʾi Nomads in Iran Since the Revolution of 1978-1979 /
  • Julia Huang.