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Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology

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Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8619-9
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8970-1
Subject AreaAsian Studies
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Marieke Brandt

Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology - Gesamt PDF

doi: 10.1553/978OEAW86199

Preliminaries

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration

Glossary

Marieke Brandt

Introduction: The Concept of Tribe in the Anthropology of Yemen

page 11

Marieke Brandt

Acknowledgments

page 19

Najwa Adra

Qabyalah or What Does It Mean to Be Tribal in Yemen?

page 21

Steven C. Caton

Power as Persuasion in Yemeni Tribal Society

page 39

Paul Dresch

Some Principles and Continuities of Tribal Law

page 51

Marieke Brandt

Some Remarks on Blood Vengeance (thaʾr) in Contemporary Yemen

page 63

Daniel Martin Varisco

Qabīlah, Jirbah and Tanmiyah: Tribes and Agriculture in the Northern Highlands of Yemen

page 79

Andre Gingrich

Munebbih’s Northwestern Borders Through the 20th Century

page 95

Lisa Lenz-Ayoub

From Bordering to Ordering: The Tribal Factor in Managing the Yemeni-Saudi Border

page 109

Alexander Weissenburger

Al-Mawaddah al-Khālidah? The Ḥūthī Movement and the Idea of the Rule of the Ahl al-Bayt in Yemen’s Tribal Society

page 121

Mikhail Rodionov

Social Restratification in Ḥaḍramawt during the Last 25 Years: An Anthropological Outlook

page 137

Helen Lackner

Tribes in the Neo-Liberal Era: Transformation of Yemen’s Social Structure

page 145

Notes on Contributors

page 159

Index

page 161