Golden River to Golden Road : : Society, Culture, and Change in the Middle East / / Raphael Patai.

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1969
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (566 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Maps and Tables
  • I. The Middle East as a Culture Continent
  • II. Some Problems of the Middle Eastern Culture Continent
  • III. The Desert and the Sown
  • IV. The Family
  • V. The Position of Women and Sex Mores
  • VI. Cousin Marriage
  • VII. Dual Organization
  • VIII. Noble and Vassal Tribes
  • IX. The Village and Its Culture
  • X. The Middle Eastern Town
  • XI. Religion in Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Western Culture
  • XII. Social and Cultural Determinants of Middle Eastern Nationalism
  • XIII. The Dynamics of Westernization
  • XIV. Resistance to Westernization
  • XV. The Endogamous Unilineal Descent Group
  • XVI. Women in a Man's World
  • Statistical Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index