Bedouin class, kinship, and gender in the Bekaa Valley /
Suzanne E. Joseph
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
c2013
1308
233 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index
Note on transliteration -- Introduction and overview -- Nomadic lives in transition -- (Un)stratified reproduction: class, tribe, and culture -- Gender myths and demographic realities -- Marriage between kin -- Population and poverty: a capitalist trap? -- Class differentiation of demographic regimes -- Demography on the nomadic periphery -- Conclusions
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A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world