Property control and social strategies in settlers in a Middle Eastern plain
By: by Barbara C. Aswad.
Series: University of Michigan. Museum of Anthropology. Anthropological papers, no. 44
Publisher: University of Michigan
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Villages -- Turkey -- Hatay.; Land tenure -- Hatay, Turkey.; Hatay, Turkey -- Rural conditions.
Description: Dr. Aswad's monograph clarifies the chaotic history of the Hatay district of southeastern Turkey. She uses both ecological and ethnohistorical tools to order portantly, her time depth, structural and contrastive study of two kinds of nomadic pastoral societies who were pressured to sedentarize in the Hatay argues convincingly the adaptive functions of Middle Eastern institutions which have never been understood in the West: parallel cousin marriage, polygamy and fission/fusion processes of lineage structure. The process of stratification by which poverty stricken slum dwellers are created as sedentarization, mechanization, and cashcropping displace the old economies is also amply indicated. -- From http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 5, 2016).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 143-152.
Based on the author's thesis, University of Michigan, 1968.