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Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.

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Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian's Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of Rome's imperial frontiers. But Peter Spring's original new study demonstrates that far from being exceptional, the building of walls and other linear defences was commonplace among the peoples and states of pre-modern era. He finds examples virtually all across the globe and analyses their forms and strategic functions. He finds patterns for their distribution, an important recurrent theme being the divide between settled agriculture and nomads. The author argues that it is mist

Fortification --- Military architecture --- Walls --- Military field engineering --- Boundaries --- Earthworks (Archaeology) --- Defensive (Military science) --- Nomads --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Herders --- Architecture --- Architecture and war --- Military engineering --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- Siege warfare --- Attack and defense (Military science) --- Defenses (Military science) --- Defensive (Military strategy) --- Military art and science --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fortification, Prehistoric --- Borders (Geography) --- Boundary lines --- Frontiers --- Geographical boundaries --- International boundaries --- Lines, Boundary --- Natural boundaries --- Perimeters (Boundaries) --- Political boundaries --- Borderlands --- Territory, National --- Topographical surveying --- Building --- Foundations --- Masonry --- History --- History, Military

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"In this innovative study, Erica Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE-50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics concerning the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations on the mainland to certain later Southeast Asian and Polynesian peoples. Through analysis of Warring States and early Han textual sources, she shows how representations of Chinese and Yue identity invariably fed upon, and often grew out of, a two-way process of centering the self while de-centering the other. Examining rebellions, pivotal ruling figures from various Yue states, and key moments of Yue agency, Brindley demonstrates the complexities involved in identity formation and cultural hybridization in the ancient world and highlights the ancestry of cultures now associated with southern China and Vietnam"--

Frontier and pioneer life --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Indigenous peoples --- Nomads --- History --- China, Southeast --- Vietnam --- China --- Ethnic relations --- History. --- Relations --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Culture fusion --- Fusion, Cultural --- Hybridism (Social sciences) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) --- Cultural relations --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Herders --- Warring States (China : 403-221 B.C.) --- Southeast China --- S04/0500 --- S09/0412 --- S11/1210 --- China: History--Ancient (Pre-Han and Han, incl. Sima Qian) --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and South-East Asia (incl. Vietnamese war) --- China: Social sciences--Works on the national minorities and special groups in China: general and before 1949 (Tibetans, Mongols etc. see Tibet, Mongolia ... but social relations between Chinese and these minorities come here) --- Yüeh-nan --- Vʹet-Nam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Vʹetnam --- Wietnam --- Biet Nam --- Biyetnan --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- SRV --- S.R.V. --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Petʻŭnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- Vjetnamio --- SRVN --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- فيتنام --- Fiyitnām --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- В'етнам --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Bietnam --- Виетнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- French Indochina --- Adivasis --- Cultural hybridity --- Transculturalism --- Transculturation