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1. Anthropology And The Middle East. The Middle East Defined; Anthropology : Some Practical Assumptions; First Approximations -- 2. Intellectual Predecessors : The Rediscovery Of The Middle East. Bonaparte's Expedition To Egypt, 1798-1801; Explorers And Scholars; William Robertson Smith (1846-1894); Scholarly Inquiry And Imperial Interests -- 3. The Functionalist Era : Village And Community Studies. Functionalism As Theory And Practice; Functionalism In The Study Of The Middle East -- 4. The Contexts Of Pastoral Nomadism. Pastoral Nomadism : The Past And The Present; Saudi Arabian Pastoralists : The Āl Murra; The Ideology Of Equality : Further Considerations -- 5. What Is A Tribe? Ideologies; The Concept Of Tribe; A Moroccan Example : The Bnī Batāw; Segmentation Ideology Or Segmentary Theory : The Bedouin Of Cyrenaica -- 6. Personal And Family Relationships. Kinship Today; Cultural Forms; Practical Kinship : Morocco; Practical Kinship : Some Analytical Considerations; Marriage; The Importance Of Kin And Family 7. Change In Practical Ideologies : Self, Sexuality, And Ethnicity. Naming; Women, Men, And Sexuality; Ethnicity And Cultural Identity -- 8. The Cultural Order Of Complex Soc

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Author
Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Published
1981
Language
EN
ISBN
9780135816295
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Anthropology, Humanities

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