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Change, barriers to change, and contradictions in the Arab village family
American anthropologist • 70 (4) • Published In 1968 • Pages: 732-752
By: Rosenfeld, Henry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
While changes in the Arab village in Israel have been extensive over the last few decades, they have not been sufficiently radical to transform family structure completely. This article considers processes or structural change and of changes in interpersonal relations within the Arab family and tries to explain the meaning of such changes when the structure nevertheless maintains a semblance of formal continuity. Formalist and equilibrium interpretations are inadequate since the only changes they consider are those of form. A historical and dialectical approach, however, takes into consideration, among other things, the direction of the processes of structural change; the accumulated effects of change; contradiction between the existing economic, political, and cultural forces that have created the structure over time and the forces present but not brought to bear on the structure or manipulated so as to contain it; and the awareness people have of the forces involved (p. 732).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Labor supply and employment
- Accumulation of wealth
- Gender status
- Regulation of marriage
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Siblings-in-law
- Lineages
- 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
- article
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca.1950-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower Galilee region, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry Rosenfeld
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 751-752)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs