Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

Zusatztext For those who would like to know more about tribal life in North Yemen this book is full of interest. Dresch has been able to give a picture of a society destined to change, possibly out of recognition. Klappentext The sedentary tribes of highland Yemen have played a prominent role in the history of South Arabia for many centuries. Combining ethnography with history! this book describes the tribal system over the last thousand years! discusses the changing place of these tribes in the world about them! and examines the values tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states. Zusammenfassung This study combines history and ethnography to describe the tribal system in Yemen over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Transliteration; Introductory; The language of honour; Tribes and collective action; Estates of Society within the tribal peace; Sayyid history and historiography; History from the Qasimis to the Hamid al-Din (c.1600-1950); The September Revolution and the post-war republic; Village life and means of livelihood; The morphology of tribal self definition; Tribes and events in the modern world; Appendices; Arabic references cited; References cited in European languages; Index

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• Authors: Paul Dresch, Paul (University Lecturer in Social Anthro Dresch, Dresch Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.1993
• EAN: 9780198277903
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827790-3
• No. of pages: 470
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Yemen, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history