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Bedouin of Mount Sinai - An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy (Paperback)
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Bedouin of Mount Sinai - An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy (Paperback)
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The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has
been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west.
Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world
affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make
their home in arid mountains that provide limited pastures and lack
arable soils and must derive much of their income from migrant
labor and trade. Still, every household maintains, at considerable
expense, a small orchard and a minute flock of goats and sheep. The
orchards and flocks sustain them in times of need and become the
core of a mutual assurance system. It is for this social security
that Bedouin live in and retire to the mountains. Based on
fieldwork over ten years, this book builds on the central
theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the
Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated into urban society and part of
the modern global world.
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