Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

ISBN-13: 9780198277903 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 480 str.

Paul Dresch

Opis

Paul 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. Dresch's unique and provocative insights are of increasing value given the increased Western involvement with Yemen since 1989, the union of the two Yemens in 1990, and the country's first free election in 1993.

Recenzje

For those who would like to know more about tribal life in North Yemen this book is full of interest. Dresch has been able to give a picture of a society destined to change, possibly out of recognition.

Spis treści

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