The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 72)

Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for half of this collection, which brings together his major writings on the Bedouin. These seminal essays are not only of ethnographic interest. All Peters' work is informed by a rigorous theoretical intelligence, and his analysis of power in Bedouin society has fascinated many discerning social scientists. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 List of illustrations 10 Foreword 11 Preface 14 Introduction by Emanuel Marx 15 Acknowledgments 23 1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin 24 2 The Bedouin way of life 42 3 The tied and the free 53 4 Aspects of the feud 72 5 Proliferation of segments 97 6 The power of shaikhs 125 7 Debt relationships 151 8 Family and marriage 209 Marriage and the father-son relationship 209 The Bedouin view of marriage 213 The division of authority between the family and the corporation 214 Parallel-cousin marriage 220 The sister's son-mother's brother relationship 222 The preference for males 223 The division of labour, by sex 224 The Bedouin ideal type of family as a unit of production 227 A particular camp viewed in detail 228 9 Bridewealth 235 10 The status of women 264 Shiite villagers of Lebanon 283 Olive farmers in Tripolitania 293 Maronite Christian villagers in Lebanon 294 Notes 299 1 The Sanusi order and the Bedouin 299 3 The tied and the free 300 4 Aspects of the feud 305 5 Proliferation of segments 307 7 Debt relationships 308 8 Family and marriage 313 9 Bridewealth 314 10 The status of women 316 Bibliography 319 Index 328 'One of the few genuinely historical books written by an anthropologist de carriere is my own book The Sanusi of Cyrenaica' (Evans-Pritchard 1962:184). This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.