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Circumcision Feasts among the Negev Bedouins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Emanuel Marx
Emanuel Marx
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
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Social scientists often consider feasts to be reflections of social structure. They assume that people living in community, sharing a common culture and participating in the same political framework, will also celebrate the same feasts. This may be superficially true. But a closer look at such feasts shows that the manner of their celebration varies a great deal between sectors of the community. Different positions in the social structure are reflected in the details of ritual, in the composition of the participants, in the nature of gifts, and in other aspects of the feasts. These distinctions are very evident in the circumcision feasts of the Negev Bedouin.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 411 - 427
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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