Book
Palestinians: from peasants to revolutionaries : a people's history
Zed Press • (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: viii, 206
By: Sayigh, Rosemary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is your classic, albeit a little polemical, history of the Palestinian people, depicting their fate under Zionism. Sayigh documents the Palestinian way of life and society under the Ottomans, the impact of the British occupation and its patronage of Zionism, the Jaffa (1921) and Jerusalem (1929) riots, the uprooting of peasants in the 1930s, the Palestinian Rebellion of 1936-1939, the War of 1948 and the forced expulsion of Palestinians; the 1967 war and failure of Arab states to come to the aid of the Palestinians, life in the refugee camps of Lebanon, and the refugee revolt and civil war. Sayigh documents the history of land alienation, the collusion between Britain and Zionists, the arming of the latter, and their planned systematic destruction of Arab villages. She identifies with the plight of the Palestinian peasants, the present occupants of the refugee camps, and documents the class conflict within Palestinian society and the hostility between Palestinians and other Arab states.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Community structure
- External relations
- Political movements
- Warfare
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1975-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1856-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel, Occupied Territories, and Lebanon
- NotesAdditional notes
- recorded by Rosemary Sayigh from interviews with camp Palestinians in Lebanon ; with an introduction by Noam Chomsky
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-206)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79318663
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs