Tribes and State Formation in The Middle East.

Khoury, Philip S. & Joseph Kostiner (Ed.)

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Book ID: 21546

ISBN:      1850432457

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8 vo. xv, 351 pp; cloth in d/w, glossary, biblio, index, foreword by Roy P. Mottahedeh, previous owner’s inscription verso lower cover, otherwise copy in mint condition, I. B. Tauris, London, 1991.

Synopsis

Contributions by Iran Lapidus, Richard Tapper, Steven Caton, Ernest Gellner, Bassam Tibi, Thomas Barfield, Lois Beck, Joseph Kostiner, Paul Dresch, Lisa Anderson and Albert Hourani. The contributors to this volume bring the disciplines of anthropology, history and political science to bear on the relationship of tribes to state formation. From a number of perspectives, they examine the definition, function, and interrelationship of tribes and states at different times and in different parts of the Middle East. Offering a fuller understanding of the complexities and particular patterns of state formation in regions where tribes have exercised a significant influence, this volume focuses on the continuing existence of tribal structures and systems in contemporary times, within contemporary nation-states.

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