The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors : : Explaining the Non-Human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 1.
In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names? Young's book questions old explanations and suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use such names to obscure internal cleavages.
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| Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series ; v.178 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (562 pages) |
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