As Nomadism Ends
Subtitle: The Israeli Bedouin of the Negev
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780813389592
Subjects: Ethnography; Human Geography; Indigenous peoples; Sedentarisation; Ethnic Sociology; History; Negev (Israel); Sociology; Israel; Anthropology - Cultural; Bedouins; Anthropology - General; Middle East - General; Ethnic relations; Negev
First sentence: This book is concerned with processes of change among pastoral nomads as they sedentarize and shift away from the pastoral production processes.
Description: As pastoral nomads become settled, they face social, spatial, and ecological change in the shift from herding to farming, toward integration into the market economy. This book analyzes the socio-spatial changes that follow the end of nomadism, especially in the unique case of the Bedouin of the Negev.

Focusing on the structural consequences of the shift to sedentarization, the author explores the related socio-spatial issues of the encounter with the modern, westernized world within a settlement frontier context: The adaptation of territorial behavior; the adoption of western demographic patterns; changes in the social status of individuals; integration into a system of social services; and the spatial conflict between state governments and pastoral nomads.