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Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the
remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the
lower Euphrates. He describes their social and economic
organization and discusses on the one hand the process by which
people with bedouin traditions and values have adapted themselves
to different and difficult conditions, and on the other the effects
upon them of submission to the central government and the
modernisation of their modes of life that has resulted from it. His
account offers a fascinating study of people living in an unusual
environment, and will be of value to the anthropologist and
ethnologist for its precise ethnography. At the same time, as one
of the few detailed studies of the changes now being wrought on
such a large scale by modern economic and political forces, it has
real importance for the general student of contemporary Middle
Eastern affairs.
Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the
remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the
lower Euphrates. He describes their social and economic
organization and discusses on the one hand the process by which
people with bedouin traditions and values have adapted themselves
to different and difficult conditions, and on the other the effects
upon them of submission to the central government and the
modernisation of their modes of life that has resulted from it. His
account offers a fascinating study of people living in an unusual
environment, and will be of value to the anthropologist and
ethnologist for its precise ethnography. At the same time, as one
of the few detailed studies of the changes now being wrought on
such a large scale by modern economic and political forces, it has
real importance for the general student of contemporary Middle
Eastern affairs.
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