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Bedouin of Mount Sinai : an anthropological study of their political economy / Emanuel Marx.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York [N.Y.] : Berghahn Books, 2013.Description: xi, 195 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780857459312 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780857459329 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.892/720531 23
LOC classification:
  • DS113.75 .M37 2013
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index.

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.

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