Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev

Bailey, Clinton

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“…However, a qaṣīda mocking the dominant culture or lamenting its impacts still provides entertainment at a public gathering such as a wedding, and brings prestige to its composer. Bedouin oral poetic tradition remains vital today in South Sinai as elsewhere (Bailey 2002;Holes andAbu Athera 2007, 2009), with poetry both composed spontaneously and memorized by listeners to repeat at later gatherings. 12 Stories may be as powerful as poetry in transmitting resistance.…”

Section: Narratives Of Resistance -Poetry and Storiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…An Awlād Sa'īd man I spoke with in a remote area said simply: 'Herding is the Bedu's life.' 6 Sinai's population by Bedu extends from the pre-Islamic era to the 18th century ce (Murray 1935;Finkelstein and Perevolotsky 1990;Bailey 2002). In its high mountain region, pastoralism has been supplemented by a unique Byzantine orchard horticulture (Hobbs 1995;Zalat and Gilbert 2008) and at lower elevations by the cultivation of dates.…”

Section: Bedouin Life: Building Blocksmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…South Sinai Bedu have always expressed themselves through poetry (Lavie 1990;Bailey 2002;Holes and Abu Athera 2009). Abu-Lughod (1985) analyses its role as a vehicle for gendered social resistance within Bedouin society; however, in Sinai nowadays its message is as often externally directed, and political rather than personal.…”

Section: Narratives Of Resistance -Poetry and Storiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Nature = Life: Environmental Identity as Resistance in South Sinai

Gilbert¹

2013

Nomadic Peoples

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Sedentarization and 'development', under Israeli Occupation (1967-1982) and subsequent Egyptian rule, have eroded the agropastoral livelihoods of South Sinai Bedu and the strong cultural identity that evolved from them. Unequal access to work and poor education have produced material poverty, while government policy to 'Egyptianize' Sinai has marginalized Bedouin culture. This article explores the impacts on Bedu of living with multiple inequalities, and the strategies people employ to validate themselves in a system that disdains or ignores them. Among the most important is adopting a self-appointed role as guardians of nature. Bedu are choosing to reformulate an environmental identity as an act of symbolic resistance to Egyptianization, and to a neglect of the environment that they feel, with good reason, extends to them.

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Section: Narratives Of Resistance -Poetry and Storiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Bedouin Life: Building Blocksmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Narratives Of Resistance -Poetry and Storiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Nature = Life: Environmental Identity as Resistance in South Sinai

Gilbert¹

2013

Nomadic Peoples

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“…I denote these with the term 'core livelihoods', as they remain central to people's view of what it means to live as Bedu. The occupations are complementary: the low physical endurance of small livestock restricts the distances animals can travel, and they rarely moved more than 50 km from summer water sources (Bailey 2002), enabling horticulture and limited agriculture to develop in a combination unique to the region. These defi ning occupations were historically supplemented by paid work.…”

Section: Pre-development Livelihoodsmentioning

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'This Is Not Our Life, It's Just a Copy of Other People's': Bedu and the Price of 'Development' in South Sinai

Gilbert¹

2011

Nomadic Peoples

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This study demonstrates the unplanned outcomes of development in an indigenous population, and the particular impact of prescribed development on bedouin livelihoods in South Sinai. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Bedu across the Middle East have adapted their livelihood strategies to the more or less authoritarian modernizing policies of nation-states. In South Sinai, in response to the rule of both Israeli and Egyptian regimes, the economy of local Bedu has shifted from pre-development, agropastoral livelihoods that provided subsistence for ten months a year, to an almost complete dependence on insecure paid work. Using data on bedouin livelihoods and household economics spanning more than forty years, I argue that state-led 'development' has brought very mixed blessings to its population. I demonstrate bedouin poverty -currently unacknowledged by the Egyptian state -for the fi rst time, and show the relative inequality of Bedu compared to other Egyptian citizens. The failure of government to record bedouin experience creates a policy blind spot, ensuring their inequality persists.

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“…Moreover, Lila Abu-Lughod (1986) shows that emotional verses are composed and sung among the Bedouins, among the weak of the society, by women and young men. A collection of verses by Clinton Bailey (2002Bailey ( [1991) also presents a good variety of themes in the verses composed and transmitted among the Bedouin in Sinai and the Negev. Bailey shows that love verses and erotic histories are also among the popular poems in these Introduction traditions of singing quatrains at weddings as ritual and entertainment.…”

Section: Research On Mandinádes and Related Traditionsmentioning

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Words as Events: Cretan mantinádes in Performance and Composition

Sykäri

2011

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The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) was founded in 1831 and has, from the very beginning, engaged in publishing operations. It nowadays publishes literature in the fields of ethnology and folkloristics, linguistics, literary research and cultural history.The first volume of the Studia Fennica series appeared in 1933. Since 1992, the series has been divided into three thematic subseries: Ethnologica, Folkloristica and Linguistica. Two additional subseries were formed in 2002, Historica and Litteraria. The subseries Anthropologica was formed in 2007.In addition to its publishing activities, the Finnish Literature Society maintains research activities and infrastructures, an archive containing folklore and literary collections, a research library and promotes Finnish literature abroad.

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Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev

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Nature = Life: Environmental Identity as Resistance in South Sinai

Nature = Life: Environmental Identity as Resistance in South Sinai

'This Is Not Our Life, It's Just a Copy of Other People's': Bedu and the Price of 'Development' in South Sinai

Words as Events: Cretan mantinádes in Performance and Composition

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