Bedouin of Mount Sinai - An Anthropological Study of Their Political Economy

Based on fieldwork over ten years


Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities

Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Bedouin Societies

Chapter 4. Oases in the Desert

Chapter 5. Labor Migrants: Balancing Income and Social Security

Chapter 6. Smuggling Drugs

Chapter 7. Roving Traders are the Bedouin's Lifeline

Chapter 8. Personal and Tribal Pilgrimages: Imagining an Orderly Social World

Chapter 9. Conclusion

References

About the author

Emanuel Marx is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He has published books and articles on the Bedouin of the Negev (Israel) and South Sinai (Egypt) and edited, with Sir Jack Goody, the work of Emrys Peters on the Bedouin of Cyrenaica (Libya).

Summary

Based on fieldwork over ten years Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuel Marx, Marx Emanuel
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2013
• EAN: 9780857459312
• ISBN: 978-0-85745-931-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology, Arabian Peninsula, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Anthropology (General); Political and Economic Anthropology