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Change, barriers to change, and contradictions in the Arab village familyarticle 1968 • Rosenfeld, Henry
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
While changes in the Arab village in Israel have been extensive over the last few decades, they have not been sufficiently radical to transform family structure completely. This article considers processes or structural change and of changes in inter...Non-hierchical, hierarchical, and masked reciprocity in an Arab villagearticle 1974 • Rosenfeld, Henry
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
Reciprocal relations in a Palestinian Arab village, wherein visiting patterns are a major mode of expression, are described and analyzed with the outcome that non-hierarchical and egalitarian relations are shown to hold among women, while competitive...Social and economic factors in explanation of the increased rate of patrilineal endogamy in the Arab village in Israelessay 1976 • Rosenfeld, Henry
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
In 1954, Rosenfeld investigated the marriage patterns of a Muslim and Christian Arab village in lower Galilee in Israel. At that time he analyzed the total number and type of marriages that took place between Muslims and Christian villagers over a pe...