book chapter
The Bedouin tribes: [chapter 3]
handbook of Arabia • 1 • Published In 1920 • Pages: 43-95
By: Great Britain. Naval intelligence Division.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a chapter from a 'Handbook on Arabia' by the British Navy's Intelligence Division. It provides a first hand account of Bedouin social organization with particular reference to 'tribal' divisions, settlement patterns and traditional history. The author of the chapter attributes the nature of Bedouin social organization to 'desert and steppe conditions' and argues that this type of society cannot survive longer under other environments.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tribe and nation
- Community heads
- Traditional history
- Taxation and public income
- Clans
- Lineages
- Military organization
- Status, role, and prestige
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- Beverly Calsoyas ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1918
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Jordan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sd 30000008
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins