Title: Tribes and power
Description: Tribes and Power provides a comprehensive understanding of the structure, functioning, and change of today's Middle Eastern tribes. In some Middle Eastern countries, tribalism has been strengthened by centralized policies, modern technology, and the market economy. This stimulating collection scrutinizes the complexities of kinship structures in Arab and Islamic cultures, and contains case studies of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Tribal government, Politics and government, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Middle east, politics and government
Places: Middle East
Time periods: 1945-