Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev - Justice without Government (Hardcover)

"Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev" is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the world's leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value. Bailey shows""how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Clinton Bailey
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-15324-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-300-15324-4
Barcode:	9780300153248

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