Book
Black tents of Arabia
Creative Age Press • New York • Published In 1947 • Pages:
By: Raswan, Carl Reinhard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, a German by birth, spent 22 years off and on among the Bedouins of Arabia. He recounts in his book his experiences in migrating, hunting, and raiding with the various tribes, the major part of the book being devoted to his life with the Rwala. There is a great deal of information on the code of honor and ethics in dealings between individuals and tribes. There is an account of a drought and the resulting emigration of the Rwala tribe to Syria in search of pasture. There is also a full account of a courtship and marriage between two of the author's Arab friends. There is illuminating material throughout the book on personality types and behavior among the Bedouins. While most of the material appears is in the Rwala collection, several sections concerning other tribes have been indexed for the Bedouin collection.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Domesticated animals
- Annual cycle
- Ethos
- Etiquette
- Tribe and nation
- Chief executive
- Instigation of war
- Arranging a marriage
- Disasters
- External relations
- Inter-community relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rwala Bedouin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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.
- Traveler
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Beverly Calsoyas ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1913-35
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1912-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Syria and Saudi Arabia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carl R. Raswan
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula/Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel