Bedouin of Mount Sinai: An Anthropological Study of Their Political Economy

by Emanuel Marx

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857459317
• ISBN13: 9780857459312
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"