Title: Tribes, government, and history in Yemen
Description: Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.
Subjects: History, Social life and customs, Tribes, Yemen, Tribus, Moeurs et coutumes, Histoire, Manners and customs, Sozialgeschichte, Stamm, Tribale groepen, Anthropology, Politics and government, Tribus et système tribal
Places: Yemen