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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
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doi: 10.1553/978OEAW86199

Preliminaries

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration

Glossary

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Introduction: The Concept of Tribe in the Anthropology of Yemen

11

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Acknowledgments

19

Najwa Adra

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

21

Steven C. Caton

Power as Persuasion in Yemeni Tribal Society

39

Paul Dresch

Some Principles and Continuities of Tribal Law

51

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Some Remarks on Blood Vengeance (thaʾr) in Contemporary Yemen

63

Daniel Martin Varisco

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

79

Andre Gingrich

Munebbih’s Northwestern Borders Through the 20th Century

95

Lisa Lenz-Ayoub

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

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

121

Mikhail Rodionov

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

137

Helen Lackner

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

145

Notes on Contributors

159

Index

161