Bedouin of Mount Sinai : : An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy / / Emanuel Marx.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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