Book
Women, property, and Islam: Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990
Cambridge University Press • New York • Published In 1995 • Pages: xi, 274
By: Moors, Annelies.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnographic study of women's property rights in the Jabal Nablus region of the West Bank. Moors looks at the varying practices surrounding inheritance, the dower, and wage labor; the three main ways women acquire property. She compares differences between rural and urban women, and women from different classes. She discusses the changes in these practices with the marginalization of agriculture and the commoditization of Palestinian society. She includes in her discussion the element of power which is not necessarily equated with property and explains why women would give up rights to property in some circumstances if instead power was gained.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jabal Nablus region, West Bank, Occupied Territories, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Annelies Moors
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94041373
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs