Tribes In Modern Yemen

Author : Marieke Brandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 3700189702

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Tribes in Modern Yemen by Marieke Brandt Pdf

"In Yemen, 'tribe' is a historically rooted, emic concept of social representation. Rooted in remotest antiquity, over the last centuries the concept of tribe in Yemen has undergone transformations, but also featured aspects of continuity. Today, with the emergence of massive political change, the eruption of popular uprisings, armed conflicts, external military intervention and the associated weakness of the state, tribalism seems to be gaining in importance once again, filling the void created by a retreating state. This collective volume explores the longevity and diversity of manifestations of tribalism in present-day Yemen. It aims at updating and rethinking research on tribes and tribalism in Ymen and providing new input for the discussion of tribalism in the Middle East"--Back cover.

Author : Marieke Brandt,Najwa Adra,Steven C. Caton,Paul Dresch,Daniel Martin Varisco,Andre Gingrich,Lisa Lenz-Ayoub,Alexander Weissenburger,Mikhail Rodionov,Helen Lackner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3700186193

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Tribes in Modern Yemen by Marieke Brandt,Najwa Adra,Steven C. Caton,Paul Dresch,Daniel Martin Varisco,Andre Gingrich,Lisa Lenz-Ayoub,Alexander Weissenburger,Mikhail Rodionov,Helen Lackner Pdf

Author : Paul Dresch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054089001

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Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch Pdf

Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.

Author : Marieke Brandt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190673598

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Tribes and Politics in Yemen by Marieke Brandt Pdf

"Tribes and politics in Yemen' tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the lenses of either the Iranian-Saudi proxy war or the Sunni-Shia divide. Yet, as experienced by locals, the Houthi conflict is much more deeply rooted in the recent history of Sa'dah Province. Its origins must be sought in the political, economic, social and sectarian transformations since the 1960s civil war and their repercussions on the local society, which is dominated by tribal norms. From the civil war to the Houthi conflict these transformations involve the same individuals, families and groups, and are driven by the same struggles over resources, prerogatives, and power. This book is based on years of anthropological fieldwork expertise both on the ground and through digital anthropological approaches. It offers a detailed account of the local complexities of the Houthi conflict and its historical background and underscores the absolute imperative of understanding the highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal conflict in Yemen."--Publisher's description.

Author : Paul Dresch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 052179482X

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A History of Modern Yemen by Paul Dresch Pdf

An accessible and fast moving account of twentieth-century Yemeni history.

Author : Manfred W. Wenner
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Yemen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120029231

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Modern Yemen, 1918-1966 by Manfred W. Wenner Pdf

General study of Yemen, with particular emphasis on political aspects - covers historical aspects (incl. The role of Turkey, the role of UK and accession to independence), demographic aspects, divisions of religion, divisions between urban area and tribal peoples, internal government, foreign policy, political problems, the civil war of 1962-1966, etc.

Author : Helen Lackner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Tribal government
ISBN : 0907552080

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Understanding the Yemeni Crisis by Helen Lackner Pdf

Author : Shelagh Weir
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292773974

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A Tribal Order by Shelagh Weir Pdf

2008 — British-Kuwait Friendship Prize in Middle Eastern Studies – British Society for Middle Eastern Studies A Tribal Order describes the politico-legal system of Jabal Razih, a remote massif in northern Yemen inhabited by farmers and traders. Contrary to the popular image of Middle Eastern tribes as warlike, lawless, and invariably opposed to states, the tribes of Razih have stable structures of governance and elaborate laws and procedures for maintaining order and resolving conflicts with a minimum of physical violence. Razihi leaders also historically cooperated with states, provided the latter respected their customs, ideals, and interests. Weir considers this system in the context of the rugged environment and productive agricultural economy of Razih, and of centuries of continuous rule by Zaydi Muslim regimes and (latterly) the republican governments of Yemen. The book is based on Weir's extended anthropological fieldwork on Jabal Razih, and on her detailed study of hundreds of handwritten contracts and treaties among and between the tribes and rulers of Razih. These documents provide a fascinating insight into tribal politics and law, as well as state-tribe relations, from the early seventeenth to the late twentieth century. A Tribal Order is also enriched by case histories that vividly illuminate tribal practices. Overall, this unusually wide-ranging work provides an accessible account of a remarkable Arabian society through time.

Author : Stephen W. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107022157

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Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen by Stephen W. Day Pdf

Based on years of in-depth field research, this book unravels the complexities of the Yemeni state and its domestic politics with a particular focus on the post-1990 years. The central thesis is that Yemen continues to suffer from regional fragmentation which has endured for centuries. En route the book discusses the rise of President Salih, his tribal and family connections, Yemen's civil war in 1994, the war's consequences later in the decade, the spread of radical movements after the US military response to 9/11 and finally developments leading to the historic events of 2011. This book sets a new standard for scholarship on Yemeni politics and it is essential reading for anyone interested in the modern Middle East, the 2011 Arab revolts and twenty-first-century Islamic politics.

Author : Miriam Cooke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957268

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Tribal Modern by Miriam Cooke Pdf

In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity—an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.

Author : M. Al-Rasheed,R. Vitalis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403981318

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Counter-Narratives by M. Al-Rasheed,R. Vitalis Pdf

Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our knowledge about them is highly limited, while typical ways of looking at the histories of these countries have impeded understanding. Counter-Narratives brings together a group of leading scholars of the Middle East using new theoretical and methodological approaches to cross-examine standard stories, whether as told by Westerners or by Saudis and Yemenis, and these are found wanting. The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.

Author : Steven C. Caton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466807730

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Yemen Chronicle by Steven C. Caton Pdf

A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. Yemen Chronicle is Caton's touchingly candid acount of the extraordinary events that ensued. One day a neighboring sheikh came angrily to the sanctuary village where Caton lived, claiming that a man there had abducted his daughter and another girl. This was cause for war, and even though the culprit was captured and mediation efforts launched, tribal hostilities simmered for months. A man who was helping to resolve the dispute befriended Caton, showing him how the poems recited by the belligerents were connected to larger Arab conflicts and giving him refuge when the sanctuary was attacked. Then, unexpectedly, Caton himself was arrested and jailed for being an American spy. It was 2001 before Caton could return toYemen to untangle the story of why he had been imprisoned and what had happened to the missing girls. Placing his contradictory experiences in their full context, Yemen Chronicle is not only an invaluable assessment of classical ethnographic procedures but also a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture.

Author : Laurent Bonnefoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190922597

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Yemen and the World by Laurent Bonnefoy Pdf

Winner of the Académie Française's Prix Eugène Colas Contemporary Yemen has an image problem. It has long fascinated travelers and artists, and to many embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, global perceptions of Yemen are of an entity that is somehow both marginal and passive, yet also dangerous and problematic. The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global 'war on terror' has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen's complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers--resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies. Yemen and the World offers a corrective to these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world's interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen's role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange--globalization, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism--to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.

Author : Steven C. Caton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520913728

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Peaks of Yemen I Summon by Steven C. Caton Pdf

In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and "ungrammatical," yet admired for its wit and spontaneity. In Yemeni society, the poet has power over people. By eloquence the poet can stir or, if his poetic talents are truly outstanding, motivate an audience to do his bidding. Yemeni tribesmen think, in fact, that poetry's transformative effect is too essential not to use for pressing public issues. Drawing on his three years of field research in North Yemen, Caton illustrates the significance of poetry in Yemeni society by analyzing three verse genres and their use in weddings, war mediations, and political discourse on the state. Moreover, Caton provides the first anthropology of poetics. Challenging Western cultural assumptions that political poetry can rarely rise above doggerel, Caton develops a model of poetry as cultural practice. To compose a poem is to construct oneself as a peacemaker, as a warrior, as a Muslim. Thus the poet engages in constitutive social practice. Because of its highly interdisciplinary approach, this book will interest a wide range of readers including anthropologists, linguists, folklorists, literary critics, and scholars of Middle Eastern society, language, and culture.

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300180282

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Arabs by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Pdf

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments--from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic--have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.