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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2024.
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ;
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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- 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.