Book
The Rwala Bedouin today
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge, [cambridgeshire] • Published In 1981 • Pages: x, 179
By: Lancaster, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book explores how the Rwala Bedouins responded to effects of external forces that have impinged upon their culture and economy from 1900 to 1970s. The most important of these forces include the divison of Rwala's traditional homeland among four newly emerged states (namely Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq), the booming of oil in the region, and civil wars and radical government changes especially in Syria. The book argues that these forces have required Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks to continuously balance between tradition and change. While accepting citizenship to a territorially bounded nation state and participating in crossboarder markets, the Rwala have, for example, continued pursuing their age-old culturally-desired goal of improving one's status by earning reputation and herding camels not only for their economic values, but also for the special meanings associated with them as symbols of wealth and identity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- External relations
- Inter-community relations
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Ethics
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Lancaster
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-174) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80041547
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins--Saudi Arabia/Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs