Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev: Justice without Government
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Clinton Bailey
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Egypt
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780300153248
- ISBN-10
- 0300153244
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev: Justice without Government
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ISBN: 0300153244
Author: Bailey, Clinton
Condition: New
Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the worlds leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value.Bailey showshow a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.
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