| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities; Chapter Two -- The Political Economy of Bedouin Societies; Chapter Three -- Oases in the Desert; Chapter Four -- Labor Migrants: Balancing Income and Social Security; Chapter Five -- Smuggling Drugs; Chapter Six -- Roving Traders Are the Bedouin's Lifeline; Chapter Seven -- Personal and Tribal Pilgrimages: Imagining an Orderly Social World; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid mountains that provide limited pastures and lack arable soils and must derive much of their income from migrant labor and trade. Still, every household maintains, at considerable expense, a small orchard and a minute flock of goats and sheep. The orchards and flocks sustain them in times of need and become the core of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bedouins -- Egypt -- Sinai
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Bedouins -- Israel -- Negev
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
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Bedouins
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Beduine
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Nomadismus
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Nutztierzucht
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Gartenbau
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Wallfahrt
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Handel
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Verwandtschaft
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Drogenhandel
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Egypt -- Sinai
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Israel -- Negev
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Ägypten
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Sinai
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857459329 |
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0857459325 |
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1299777651 |
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9781299777651 |
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