Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 411-427 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1973 |
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University of Manchester |
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In: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, 10.1973, p. 411-427.
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T1 - Circumcision Feasts Among The Negev Bedouins
AU - Marx, Emanuel
N1 - Funding Information: The four Bedouin tribes making up the ^ullam group of tribes of the Tiaha Confederation live in the eastern Beersheba Plain and surrounding areas.1 The three big tribes of the group are the Abu Rbe'ah who, according to the population census of 1961,2 number 2,500 persons; the Abu Jwe'id, numbering 1,200 persons; and the Abu Qrenat, with 1,600 persons. The fourth small al-Kashkhar tribe is estimated to be 150 strong. The ^ullam control a compact territory, which they use for extensive cereal farming and for pasture. The fertile, yellow, loess-like soils of the Beersheba plain are well suited for most grains and vegetables, provided there is enough water. Bedouins sow the land in the plain annually with barley and some wheat; on some plots moisture can be retained in the ground long enough to grow vegetables. Most of the rain falls between 1 Field work in the Negev was carried out over a period of 18 months, from October i960 to December 1961, and from August to October 1963. It was financed mainly by a research associateship from the University of Manchester, and partly by a grant from the Hayter funds; I am deeply grateful for the generous assistance received. I thank Professor E. L. Peters for guidance in analysing my material. A major part of my study was published as Bedouin of the Negev (Manchester, 1967); I consider this paper to form a sequel to the book, pulling together some of its lines of argument. An earlier version of the paper was published, in Hebrew, in the Journal of the Israel Oriental Society, The New East, vol. xvi (1966), pp. 166—75. I wrote this version during my tenure of a Senior Simon Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester in 1969^70. I must ask the reader to bear in mind that I describe Bedouin society as it existed in the early 60s, during the time of my fieldwork. Since then it has changed. 2 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, The Settlements of Israel, part I (Jerusalem, 1963), pp. 2-3. The figure for the Abu Rbg'ah tribe is considerably higher than that given for 1960 in my Bedouin of the Negev, p. 13, as it includes a number of peasants previously unattached to the tribe. The al-Kashkhar were not counted in the census, as they were not at the time considered to be residents of the country.
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