The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors : Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices /
In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations - "totemism," "emulation of predatory animals," "ancestor eponymy," "nicknaming,&quo...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors : |b Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices / |c William C. Young. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; |v 178.2-1 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Volume 1 -- 1 Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups --  1 The Puzzle: Why Use Terms for Non-human Species as Names for People and Groups? --  2 The Importance of Kinship Group Names and the Mundane Elements of Culture --  3 The Distinctiveness of Arab Names for Kinship Groups in Comparative Perspective --  4 A Traditional Explanation of Kinship Group Names: The "Predatory Animals" Hypothesis --  5 Exceptions to the "Predatory Animals" Hypothesis: Why Use the Names of Vermin and Other Valueless Species as Personal and Tribal Names? --  6 Robertson Smith's Solution: "Totemism" --  7 Comparing the Arab Case with More Elaborated Cases of "Totemism" --  8 The Lingering Traces of "Totemism" in Scholarship about the Middle East --  9 Evaluating Nöldeke's Explanations: The Inadequacy of the Anecdotal Approach --  10 Testing Nöldeke's Explanations of Why Animal Names Are Given to Groups --  11 A New Explanation: "Obscuring Internal Cleavages" --  12 Deriving Testable Hypotheses from the "Obscuring Internal Cleavages" Explanation --  13 The Broader Context: The Meanings of Arab Tribal Names --  14 How to Read the Remaining Chapters in This Book -- 2 Compiling a Data Base of Arab Kinship Groups Named after Natural Species --  1 The Starting Point: Finding a Suitable List of Arab Kinship Groups --  2 The Difficulties of Translation --  3 The Process of Comparing Terms for Natural Species with Kinship Group Names -- 3 Methods for Compiling a List of Arabic Terms for Birds --  1 Theoretical Background: Anthropological Research on Folk Taxonomies and the Definition of Arabic Bird Terms --  2 Obstacles That Complicate the Comparison of Bird Terms with Kinship Group Names -- 4 Finding and Translating Arabic Terms for Mammals --  1 The Difficulty of Defining Non-taxonomic Terms for Mammals in Modern Standard Arabic --  2 The Impact of Classical and Early Islamic Scholarship on Arabic Biological Terminology --  3 An Alternative to Standard Dictionaries: Local Tradition --  4 The Utility and Limits to the Usefulness of Local Tradition for Defining Animal Terms in Arabic --  5 An Artificial Hierarchy of Arabic Animal Terms --  6 Additional Terms for Mammals below the Species Level of Classification --  7 Problems in Comparing Terms for Mammals with Kinship Group Names -- 5 Arabic Terms for Plants, Insects, Reptiles, and Marine Life --  1 Problems in Collecting Terms for Plants --  2 Terms for Insects and Spiders, Reptiles and Amphibians, and Marine Life -- 6 Evaluating Existing Explanations in Light of Empirical Evidence --  1 The "Predatory Animals" Hypothesis --  2 Testing the "Ancestor Eponymy" Hypothesis: Comparing the Personal Names of Ancestors with the Collective Names of Kinship Groups --  3 "Nickname Eponymy" as an Explanation of Group Names Derived from Terms for Natural Species --  4 The "Naturalistic" Explanation -- 7 Group Names, Bedouin Social Organization, and the Flow of Information --  1 Two Ideal Types of Social Organization in the Arab World: The Bedouin Tribe and the Sedentary Tribe --  2 Sedentary Tribes That Have Bedouin Features --  3 Conflict Resolution and Bedouin Control Over Genealogical Information --  4 The Bedouin Tribe as a Stratified Collection of Peripheral Groups around a Core of Kin --  5 Economic Inequality and Political Stratification in Bedouin Tribes --  6 Geography and Political Stratification in Bedouin Tribes --  7 The Attachment of Foreign Elements to the Bedouin Tribe --  8 The Cultural Dimension: Native Representations of Attachment to the Tribe --  9 Using Non-human Names for Kinship Groups as "Empty Ciphers" that Conceal Foreign Origins -- 8 Tests of the New Explanation --  1 The Heterogeneous Composition of Bedouin Tribes --  2 Test Number One: A Search for a Correlation between Variation in Tribal Heterogeneity and Variation in the Names Chosen for Kinship Groups --  3 A Second Test of the "Obscuring Internal Cleavages" Hypothesis: Comparing Bedouin with Non-Bedouin -- 9 Conclusions: Varying Levels of Support for Five Hypotheses --  1 The Goals of the Analysis --  2 The Goals of This Book --  3 Topics for Future Research -- References -- Index -- Volume 2/1 -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Appendix A: List of Taxonomic Bird Terms in Arabic -- Appendix B: List of Non-taxonomic Bird Terms in Arabic -- Appendix C: Comparison of Standard Arabic Bird Terminology with Two Sets of Colloquial Arabic Terms (after Zalat and Gilbert 2008: 164-197 and Hobbs 1989: 129-133) -- Appendix D: List of Taxonomic Terms for Mammals in Arabic -- Appendix E: List of Non-taxonomic Terms for Mammals in Arabic -- Appendix F: List of Taxonomic Plant Terms in Arabic -- Appendix G: List of Non-taxonomic Plant Terms in Arabic -- Appendix H: List of Terms for Insects, Spiders, and Scorpions in Arabic -- Appendix I: List of Terms for Reptiles and Amphibians in Arabic -- Appendix J: List of Terms for Marine Life (Fish, Sharks, Corrals, Etc.) in Arabic -- Volume 2/2 -- Appendix K: List of Kinship Groups Named after Birds -- Appendix L: List of Kinship Groups Named After Mammals -- Appendix M: List of Kinship Groups Named after Plants -- Appendix N: List of Kinship Groups Named after Insects, Spiders, and Scorpions -- Appendix O: List of Kinship Groups Named after Reptiles and Amphibians -- Appendix P: List of Kinship Groups Named after Types of Marine Life -- Appendix Q: Ancestor Eponymy: Kinship Group Names Derived from -- Biological Terms That Are Also Used as Personal Names -- Appendix R: List of Nicknames Derived from Terms for Natural Species Found in the Onomasticon Arabicum -- Appendix S: Non-genealogical Names of Tribes, Sub-tribes, and Clans in Nineteenth-Century Palestine -- Appendix T: List of Sedentary Kinship Groups Named after Natural Species in Northern Jordan. | |
| 520 | |a In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations - "totemism," "emulation of predatory animals," "ancestor eponymy," "nicknaming," and "Bedouin proximity to nature." It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include "attached" elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting "attached" groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young's argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship. | ||
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