Let Shepherding Endure
Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
233 pages
978-0-7914-8646-7 (ISBN)
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Addresses how shepherding communities in Israel and the Middle East might be preserved.
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Gideon M. Kressel
Let Shepherding Endure
Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East
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08/2003
State University of New York Press
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Gideon M. Kressel
Let Shepherding Endure
Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East
Book
08/2003
State University of New York Press
€96.00
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Gideon M. Kressel is Professor of Anthropology and Oriental Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of several books, including Ascendancy Through Aggression: The Anatomy of a Blood Feud Among Urbanized Bedouins and coeditor (with A. Paul Hare) of Israel as Center Stage: A Setting for Social and Religious Enactments.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nomadic Pastoralists, Agriculturalists, and the State: Self-Sufficiency and Dependence in the Middle East
2. Changes in Land Usage by the Negev Bedouin since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Intratribal Perspective
3. Applied Anthropology, Cultural Survival, and New Directions for the Future of the Negev Bedouin
4. Governmental Policies toward the Bedouin
5. Enhancing the Attractiveness of Shepherding
6. Are Shepherds' Villages Viable?
7. Designing a Shepherd's Village
8. Teach the Children of Judah Sheep!: The Crisis of Small Ruminants Breeding
9. Toward a Better Plan of Action
Bibliography
Name Index Subject Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nomadic Pastoralists, Agriculturalists, and the State: Self-Sufficiency and Dependence in the Middle East
2. Changes in Land Usage by the Negev Bedouin since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Intratribal Perspective
3. Applied Anthropology, Cultural Survival, and New Directions for the Future of the Negev Bedouin
4. Governmental Policies toward the Bedouin
5. Enhancing the Attractiveness of Shepherding
6. Are Shepherds' Villages Viable?
7. Designing a Shepherd's Village
8. Teach the Children of Judah Sheep!: The Crisis of Small Ruminants Breeding
9. Toward a Better Plan of Action
Bibliography
Name Index Subject Index
