Havatzelet Yahel

The Tribal Challenge

Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The study opens with a detailed look at the early years of the 1940s and 1950s that shaped the relationship between Israel and the Bedouin, most notably Israel's effort to accommodate tribalism in collaboration with the sheikhs. The story then shifts to the next stage in Israel's policymaking under the Military Administration in the 1960s and early 1970s. Although various forces were at work to break down tribal life, especially the hardship of prolonged droughts, nevertheless the pro-tribal policy won out in the end. Today, Israel's policy towards the Bedouin focuses more on traditional tribal authority figures than on the role of Bedouin individuals in a democratic society"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780253070791
• ISBN-10: 0253070791
• Artikelnr.: 69314019

Autorenporträt

Havatzelet Yahel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Arab Transcription
A Note on Maps
Introduction: The Tribal Challenge, Bedouin, Jewish Settlements, and the
Mandate
Part I
1. Bedouin in the War of Independence
2. Creation of the Military Regime: Nominated Sheikhs and Tribal units,
1949-1956
Part II
3. Bedouin Exit from the Negev, 1957-1960
4. The Decline of the Military Administration, 1961-1966
Part III
5. New Institutions-Old Alliances, 1967-1971
Conclusion: The Question of Functional Alliances
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Table of Consonants
Appendix 2: Bedouin Groups
Appendix 3: Persons (Bedouin)
Notes
Bibliography
Index