TY  - JOUR
AU  - Atran, Scott
PY  - 1986
DA  - 1986//
TI  - Hamula organisation and Masha'a tenure in Palestine
JO  - Man (N.S.)
SP  - 271
EP  - 295
VL  - Vol. 21
IS  - no. 2
PB  - [Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, etc.]
CY  - [London]
KW  - Palestinian Arabs
KW  - Palestinians
KW  - Real property
KW  - Acquisition and relinquishment of property
KW  - Avuncular and nepotic relatives
KW  - Clans
KW  - Community structure
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0025-1496
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=m013-027
LA  - English
N1  - Scott Atran
ID  - m013-027
Y1  - 2022-08-12
ER  -