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Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
Suzanne E. Joseph
Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
Suzanne E. Joseph
With an average of over nine children per family, older cohorts of Bedouin in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon have one of the highest fertility rates in the world. Many married couples in this pastoral community are close relatives. To outsiders, such family norms attract assumptions of Arab “backwardness,” poverty, and sexism. Remarkably, Fertile Bonds flips these stereotypes.
246 pages, 15 tables, 7 black & white photographs, 1 drawing
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 14 de fevereiro de 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780813054100 |
Editoras | University Press of Florida |
Páginas | 246 |
Dimensões | 155 × 233 × 14 mm · 385 g |
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