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Paul Dresch
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Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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480 |
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1990-02-08 |
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0198273312 |
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Oxford University Press, USA |
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1.74 pounds |
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5.69 x 8.81 x 1.25 inches |
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Product Description
Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.
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http://bookmooch.com/0198273312 |
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