Book
Structure and authority in a Bedouin tribe: the 'Aishabit of the Western Desert of Egypt
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Obermeyer, Gerald Joseph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, based on the data collected by the author during the period of his fieldwork from June 1964 to May 1965, is an analysis of the political structure, authority, and leadership roles in the relatively permanent 'Aishaibat Bedouin coastal community of al-Qasr, near the town of Marsa Matruh in the Western Desert of the United Arab Republic (Egypt). As a background for this political analysis, the author presents a general cultural history of the Libyan Bedouin dating from 639 AD with the Arab conquests of Egypt up to 1965, at the time of the author's fieldwork. Additional supplementary materials relates to social change, land use, land tenure and rights of ownership, kinship and marriage patterns and the specific history of settlement in al-Qasr. Obermeyer draws his data together in a concise summary chapter which concludes this work (p. 320 ff.).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lineages
- Family relationships
- Ingroup antagonisms
- History
- Status, role, and prestige
- Culture summary
- Sanctions
- Property
- Contracts
- Social relationships and groups
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Libyan Bedouin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marsa Matruh area, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gerald Joseph Obermeyer
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Indiana University, 1968
- UM 69-10,572
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-344)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins