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The indigenous Bedouins of the Naqab-Negev desert in Israel : submitted to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues / [prepared by Elana Boteach ; edited by Ariel Dloomy, Haia Noach, Francesca Burke].
Elana Boteach
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Bedouin of Mount Sinai [electronic resource]
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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 a
| Title |
Bedouin of Mount Sinai [electronic resource] : an anthropological study of their political economy / Emanuel Marx. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
New York : Berghahn Books |
| Creation Date |
2013 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index. English |
| Content |
The growth of a conception: nomads and cities -- The political economy of Bedouin societies -- Oases in the desert -- Labor migrants: balancing income and social security -- Smuggling drugs -- Roving traders are the Bedouin's lifeline -- Personal and tribal pilgrimages: imagining an orderly social world. |
| Extent |
1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997012132157705171 |
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