%0 Journal Article
%T Hamula organisation and Masha'a tenure in Palestine
%A Atran, Scott
%J Man (N.S.)
%D 1986
%V Vol. 21
%N no. 2
%I [Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, etc.]
%C [London]
%@ 0025-1496
%G English
%F m013-027
%O Scott Atran
%O YES--CRE; name searched LOC 2/10/04; Pages:27 ; ready for analysis 2/10/04; analysis completed 7/1/04; 27 text pages.
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-295)
%X Based on historical sources, the author examines the Palestinian land tenure system (MASHA'A) and assesses its vulnerability to outside interference and land dispossession. The MASHA'A was a system of communal land tenure in which land was redistributed every one to five years, depending on region, in order to share risk among cultivators. Atran discusses cultivation practices and the social composition of the villages. In the second part of the article, he focuses his attention on the history of two hill villages and shows the close 'organic' relationship between village social organization and agrarian regime. He argues against claims that this system was unproductive and susceptible to land alienation.
%K Palestinian Arabs
%K Palestinians
%K Real property
%K Acquisition and relinquishment of property
%K Avuncular and nepotic relatives
%K Clans
%K Community structure
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=m013-027
%P 271-295
%[ 2022-08-12