02544nam 2200565 a 450 991045313990332120200520144314.00-85745-932-5(CKB)2550000001108929(EBL)1337726(OCoLC)855505448(SSID)ssj0000953046(PQKBManifestationID)12459400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953046(PQKBWorkID)10906685(PQKB)11175990(MiAaPQ)EBC1337726(Au-PeEL)EBL1337726(CaPaEBR)ebr10745023(CaONFJC)MIL509016(EXLCZ)99255000000110892920120816d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBedouin of Mount Sinai[electronic resource] an anthropological study of their political economy /Emanuel MarxNew York Berghahn Books20131 online resource (207 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-931-7 1-299-77765-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index.The growth of a conception: nomads and cities -- The political economy of Bedouin societies -- Oases in the desert -- Labor migrants: balancing income and social security -- Smuggling drugs -- Roving traders are the Bedouin's lifeline -- Personal and tribal pilgrimages: imagining an orderly social world. The Sinai Peninsula links Asia and Africa and for millennia has been crossed by imperial armies from both the east and the west. Thus, its Bedouin inhabitants are by necessity involved in world affairs and maintain a complex, almost urban, economy. They make their home in arid mountains that provide limited pastures and lack arable soils and must derive much of their income from migrant labor and trade. Still, every household maintains, at considerable expense, a small orchard and a minute flock of goats and sheep. The orchards and flocks sustain them in times of need and become the core of aBedouinsIsraelNegevBedouinsEgyptSinaiElectronic books.BedouinsBedouins305.892/720531Marx Emanuel251759MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453139903321Bedouin of Mount Sinai2214661UNINA