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The herders of CyrenaicaBook 1980 • Behnke, Roy H.
Libyan Bedouin • Africa > Northern Africa
This is a brilliant analysis of the 'segmentary lineage system' of the Bedouin tribes of Cyrenaica. Behnke shows how kinship terminology is used to talk about rights to water holes, grazing pastures, and cultivated land under the complex conditions o...