Bedouin of Mount Sinai : an Anthropological Study of their Political Economy
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index |
| ISBN: | 0857459325 1299777651 9780857459329 9781299777651 |