Nomadic Societies in the Middle East And North Africa: Entering the 21st Century

Dawn Chatty

BRILL, 2006 - History - 1 pages

A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the 'nation-state' of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.

Contents

• Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa: 1
• The Nomads of PreIslamic Arabia: 33
• Last Battles of the Bedouin and the Rise of Modern States: 49
• The Political Economy of Middle Eastern and North African: 78
• Individuals Factions and Tribes among Moorish Societies: 98
• Are There Still Tribes in Morocco?: 123
• From the Disappearance of Tribes to Reawakening of: 144
• Negev Bedouin and: 176
• Readapting the gabila The Ahamda Pastoralists of Central: 204
• Customary Law among the Bedouin of the Middle East: 239
• Drawing from: 280
• Some Tribal Rural Societies in: 335
• Al Murrah: 370
• The Ait Unzār Pastoralists: 393
• Challenges Facing Herding in: 463
• Mobile: 496
• The Perpetuation of Dialects: 523
• Thoughts on the Aesthetic Perceptions: 539
• The Bedouin Community and: 573
• Egypts: 634
• the Tuareg in: 654
• The Case of the Algerian Tuareg: 682
• JEREMY H KEENAN: 690
• Desert Tourism as a Substitute for Pastoralism? Tuareg: 710
• The Bedouin in: 737
• Seeking: 759
• Guidelines for the Involvement of Nomadic Pastoralists: 785
• Qashqai Nomads: 805
• Bedouin Contestation with Formal: 865
• Womens Roles Polygyny and Cultural Transformation: 883
• Sedentarization and Changing Patterns of Social: 916
• Remembering the Tribal: 940
• Bedouin Womens: 966
• Introducing Bedouin Womens: 994
• Cassettes and the Shifting Politics of Awlad Ali Love Poetry: 1013
• Index: 1035

About the author

Dawn Chatty, Ph.D. (1975) in Social Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, is Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on pastoral nomadism, forced settlement and sustainable development including Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn, 2002) edited with Marcus Colchester.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nomadic Societies in the Middle East And North Africa: Entering the 21st Century; Volume 81 of Handbook Of Oriental Studies; Volume 81 of Handbook of oriental studies : Sect. 1, The Near and Middle East / Handbuch der Orientalistik / 1; Volume 81 of Handbuch der Orientalistik. 81. Bd; Volume 81 of Handbuch der Orientalistik: Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten
• Editor: Dawn Chatty
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: BRILL, 2006
• ISBN: 9004147926, 9789004147928
• Length: 1 pages
• Subjects: History / Modern / 21st Century; Social Science / Islamic Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General