Domestic government : kinship, community and polity in North Yemen
1995, 1st edition. London : I.B. Tauris. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #397986
ISBN: 1850439184
Series: Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East. Physical description: 315 pages, 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Appendix contains Arabic legal documents with summaries and interpretations in English. Contents: Part 1 Introduction: themes of study; the national context -- geography and history. Part 2 The locality -- images of place and political order: landscape observed; history remembered; community imagined; status and community -- images of status, community and status order, land, occupation and status. Part 3 Law in the locality. Part 4 The village economy -- agriculture and the market: an introduction -- the division of labour; agriculture -- the character of property, the distribution of rights to land, patterns of production; the market -- agriculture and the market, specialists, literacy -- the religious specialist and the government employee. Part 5 House, household and family: introduction; patronymic groups; household -- household forms, family and household, the working of households. Part 6 Material exchange and moral order: an exceptional life -- by way of introduction; property systems and peasant society; on marriage -- ritual, payments; on childbirth and the conjugal family -- childbirth, household and conjugal family; on death and property -- mourning the dead, transmission -- prae mortem, post mortem, law and documentation; conclusions -- juridical model, social model. Part 7 Alliance -- household, house and community: introduction; alliance -- politics and economy -- status and alliance, spatial patterns, laud and marriage; kinship and the circles of marriage -- local terms of alliance, the frequency of "close marriage", economy and "close marriage", marriages of a patronymic group; marital alliance -- for and economy. Part 8 Conclusion. Subjects: Households Yemen, North; Manners and customs; Rural conditions; Social conditions; Yemen (Republic) Politics and government.
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