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Synopsis
Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.
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The sedentary tribes of highland Yemen have played a prominent role in the history of South Arabia for many centuries. Combining ethnography with history, this book describes the tribal system over the last thousand years, discusses the changing place of these tribes in the world about them, and examines the values tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states.
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Paul Dresch is at St John's College, Oxford.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0198273312
- ISBN 13 9780198273318
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages470
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Hardcover. navy boards. book xixx, 440 pgs w/ bw illustrations, figures & maps. blue illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing & protective plastic. From a college library. Due date card has two removal stamps. A nice, tight copy. "Dr. Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the least thousand years, and examines the values 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 Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years filed work."--Publisher. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, usual markings, etc. pgs clean. tight binding. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID to lower spine; scuffs & scratches to plastic). Seller Inventory # 184363
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