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Fertile bonds : Bedouin class, kinship, and gender in the Bekaa Valley / Suzanne E. Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joseph, Suzanne E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bedouins--Lebanon--Biqa Valley.
- Bedouins.
- Families--Lebanon--Biqa Valley.
- Families.
- Fertility, Human--Lebanon--Biqa Valley.
- Fertility, Human.
- Sex role--Lebanon--Biqa Valley.
- Sex role.
- Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon)--Social life and customs.
- Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4638-6
- 0-8130-4848-6
- OCLC:
- 855019748
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