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Settlement of violence in Bedouin society
Ethnology • 29 (31) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 225-242
By: Khalaf, Sulayman N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses peace building and conflict management practices among the Bedouins of Jezirah, northeast Syria. Himself a native Bedouin professional Anthropologist, the author uses two cases of homicide involving his own family to show how community and tribal leaders achieve peace, or instances of it, by mobilizing a wide variety of indigenous legal norms, religious symbols and kinship rules. In doing so, the author also argues against long held stereotypes which paint the Bedouins as war-like, hostile and conflict prone.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Inter-community relations
- Offenses against life
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Social control
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1940s and 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sulayman N. Khalaf
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins