The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Introduction by Emanuel Marx
	Acknowledgments
1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin
2 The Bedouin way of life
3 The tied and the free
4 Aspects of the feud
5 Proliferation of segments
6 The power of shaikhs
7 Debt relationships
8 Family and marriage
	Marriage and the father-son relationship
	The Bedouin view of marriage
	The division of authority between the family and the corporation
	Parallel-cousin marriage
	The sister\'s son-mother\'s brother relationship
	The preference for males
	The division of labour, by sex
	The Bedouin ideal type of family as a unit of production
	A particular camp viewed in detail
9 Bridewealth
10 The status of women
	Shiite villagers of Lebanon
	Olive farmers in Tripolitania
	Maronite Christian villagers in Lebanon
Notes
	1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin
	3 The tied and the free
	4 Aspects of the feud
	5 Proliferation of segments
	7 Debt relationships
	8 Family and marriage
	9 Bridewealth
	10 The status of women
Bibliography
Index