book chapter
Bloodmoney: Western Desert
Bedouin justice : laws and customs among the Egyptian Bedouin • Cambridge • Published In 1925 • Pages: 60-78
By: Kennett, Austin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a study of the laws relevant to the paying of bloodmoney among the Libyan Bedouin occupying the western desert region of the United Arab Republic. The author gathered his data while serving as British Administrative Officer in the Libyan Desert around the year 1921. The major work from which this chapter was taken deals with the general topic of Bedouin justice and therefore covers other Bedouin groups -- the Sinai Arabs, Eastern Desert and additional Western Desert Bedouins -- outside the scope of the immediate file focus. This particular source contains several case histories illustrating the violation of Bedouin legal norms particularly in reference to the taking of human life and the resulting payment of bloodmoney as settlement of the debt incurred. Interesting insights are found throughout the source on concepts of liability, legal norms and judicial procedures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Legal norms
- Liability
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Trial procedure
- 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 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
- John Beierle ; Martin Malone ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1921
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1921
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Desert, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Austin Kennett
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 26013602
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins