Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers

Released on by Donald P. Cole
preview-18

  • Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers Book Detail

  • Author : Donald P. Cole
  • Release Date : 1998-09-01
  • Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 185
  • ISBN 13 : 1617973610
  • File Size : 81,81 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers by Donald P. Cole PDF Summary

Book Description: The arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions has for centuries been sustained. In the late twentieth century, however, forces such as modernization, globalization, and the politics and economics of nations became so great that major changes in the old ways had to take place for the sake of survival. Egypt's northwest coast, where meager coastal rains have supported a sparse but thriving population of Bedouin, saw the arrival of settlers from the Nile Valley, accustomed to a very different way of life and production, and hordes of tourists whose "empty, silent structures" effectively turned the most productive strip of the coastal range into an artificial desert. This study documents the great accommodations that took place to ensure the arid rangelands of the northwest coast continue to be viable for the demands of human existence imposed on them. "A main thesis of this study," the authors write, "is that change in the northwest coast of Egypt has strong parallels in other arid regions of the wider Arab world; and specific comparisons are made to change underway elsewhere-especially regarding the transformation of Arab nomadic pastoralist production to a new form of ranching, and the related changes of sedentarization and the monetization of most aspects of livelihood."

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-Makers

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 592 Views
DOWNLOAD

The arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions

Bedouins of the Empty Quarter

Bedouins of the Empty Quarter

File Size : 51,51 MB
Total View : 4974 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudia Arabia. This volume documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s an

Desert Borderland

Desert Borderland

File Size : 3,3 MB
Total View : 9097 Views
DOWNLOAD

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century

Bedouins of the Empty Quarter

Bedouins of the Empty Quarter

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 8099 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudia Arabia. This volume documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s an