8vo. xvi, 201 pp., frontispiece, 5 b/w plates, 2 figures, 5 diagrams, cloth in d/w, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front cover, biblio, index, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1971.

Synopsis

This work contains an analysis of the political conflicts within a small, isolated and traditionally stratified town which resulted from the external and economic forces that have troubled the Arab World. It is one of the few studies by anthropologists, which shows the influence of nationalistic ideologies on ordinary people.