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Until the First World War, Near Eastern society was tribally organised. In the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, where the Ottoman empire was weak, large and powerful tribes such as the Anaze, Beni Sakhr and Shammar competed for control of the land, the people and the economy. This in-depth study explores the history, archaeology and anthropology of tribal society, economy and politics in the villages, towns and deserts of the Near East in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts from travellers, adventurers and explorers as well as archaeological evidence, the book sheds new light on tribal life and tribal organisation as a driving force in Near Eastern society. While a straight comparison between ancient and more recent tribal communities must be treated with caution, the book shows how a better understanding of nineteenth-century tribal ethics and customs provides useful insights into the history and power relations of the more distant past and the underlying causes for the present conflicts of the region. The book is an important addition to new research on Bedouin life and culture and will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and scholars of the Near East.

Tribes --- Tribes and tribal system --- Families --- Clans --- Middle East --- Social conditions.

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Tribes --- Tribes and tribal system --- Families --- Clans --- History --- India, Northeastern --- Great Britain --- Northeast India --- Northeastern India --- Politics and government --- Colonies

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"We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today? This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Lévi-Strauss, is fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox. It takes up what he sees as the main—and urgent—task of evolutionary science: not so much to explain what we do, as to explain what we do at our peril.Ranging from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth to human rights and pop icons, Fox sets out to show how a variety of human behaviors reveal traces of their tribal roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our capacity for action. Among the questions he raises: How real is our notion of time? Is there a human “right” to vengeance? Are we democratic by nature? Are cultural studies and fascism cousins under the skin? Is evolutionary history coming to an end—or just getting more interesting? In his famously informative and entertaining fashion, drawing links from Volkswagens to Bartók to Woody Guthrie, from Swinburne to Seinfeld, Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs—needs which, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival."--Provided by publisher.

Tribes --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Tribes and tribal system --- Families --- Clans --- Philosophy.

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These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the Afric

Primitive societies. --- Tribes --- Ethnology --- Malinowski, Bronislaw, --- Tribes and tribal system --- Man, Primitive --- Primitive society --- Society, Primitive --- Malinowski, Bronislaus, --- Malinowski, B. --- Malinovski, Bronislav, --- Malinovskiĭ, Bronislav, --- מלינובסקי, ברוניסלב, --- Families --- Clans --- Social evolution --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Democracy --- Démocratie --- Africa --- Afrique --- Ethnic identity --- Identité ethnique --- 841 Politiek Bestel --- 841.1 Democratisering --- 844 Sociale Structuur --- 846.1 Etniciteit --- 860 (Vredes)cultuur --- 881 Afrika --- -Ethnicity --- -Tribes --- -Tribes and tribal system --- Families --- Clans --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Politics and government --- -Democracy --- Ethnicity --- Tribes --- -Africa --- -841 Politiek Bestel --- Démocratie --- Identité ethnique --- Tribes and tribal system --- 1960