Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 2 December 1993
- ISBN 9780198277903
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages470 pages
- Size 215x136x30 mm
- Weight 667 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp plates, line figures, tables, maps 0
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Short description:
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.
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Professor Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years' field work, he discusses the place of these tribes in the world around them from the tenth century to the twentieth.
Beginning and ending with the means by which tribesmen define themselves, he discusses the relation of the major tribes to the area as a whole, to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, and ideas of contemporary statehood.
This book will be of interest to readers concerned with the relation of anthropology to history and also to those from other disciplines who are concerned with Arabia past and present. It offers a fresh approach to issues which arise throughout the Middle East.
A deeply engaged and engaging work, complexly and grandly conceived and wittily written, its scholarship is also miles above sea level.
Table of Contents:
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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