| The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power Contributor(s): Peters, Emrys L. (Author), Goody, Jack (Editor), Marx, Emanuel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 052138561X ISBN-13: 9780521385619 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $139.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1991 Annotation: Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for half of this collection, which brings together his major writings on the Bedouin. These seminal essays are not only of ethnographic interest. All Peters??? work is informed by a rigorous theoretical intelligence, and his analysis of power in Bedouin society has fascinated many discerning social scientists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 961.2 |
| LCCN: 89048036 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.34" W x 9.22" (1.52 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for half of this collection, which brings together his major writings on the Bedouin. These seminal essays are not only of ethnographic interest. All Peters' work is informed by a rigorous theoretical intelligence, and his analysis of power in Bedouin society has fascinated many discerning social scientists. |