Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword by Jack Goody
- Preface
- Introduction by Emanuel Marx
- 1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin
- 2 The Bedouin way of life
- 3 The tied and the free
- 4 Aspects of the feud
- 5 Proliferation of segments
- 6 The power of shaikhs
- 7 Debt relationships
- 8 Family and marriage
- 9 Bridewealth
- 10 The status of women
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Plate section
Plate section
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword by Jack Goody
- Preface
- Introduction by Emanuel Marx
- 1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin
- 2 The Bedouin way of life
- 3 The tied and the free
- 4 Aspects of the feud
- 5 Proliferation of segments
- 6 The power of shaikhs
- 7 Debt relationships
- 8 Family and marriage
- 9 Bridewealth
- 10 The status of women
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Plate section
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- The Bedouin of CyrenaicaStudies in Personal and Corporate PowerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991