Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East).

Very good condition. Cover slightly scuffed. - Contents -- List of maps -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Note on anthropological terms and Arabic transliteration -- Preface and acknowledgements -- i Introduction -- Themes of study -- The national context: geography and history -- The locality: images of place and political order -- Landscape observed -- History remembered -- Community imagined -- Status and community -- Images of status -- Community and status order -- Land, occupation and status -- Law in the locality -- The village economy: agriculture and the market -- An introduction: the division of labour -- Agriculture -- The character of property -- The distribution of rights to land -- Patterns of production -- The market -- Agriculture and the market -- Specialists -- Literacy: the religious specialist and the government employee -- House, household and family -- Introduction -- Patronymic groups -- Households -- Household forms -- Family and household -- The working of households -- Material exchange and moral order -- An exceptional life: by way of introduction -- Property systems and peasant society -- On marriage -- 'Ritual -- Payments -- On childbirth and the conjugal family -- Childbirth -- Household and conjugal family -- On death and property -- Mourning the dead -- Transmission: prae mortem, post mortem -- Law and documentation -- On practice -- Conclusions: juridical model, social model -- Alliance: household, house and community -- Introduction -- Alliance: politics and economy -- Status and alliance -- Spatial patterns -- Land and marriage -- Kinship and the circles of marriage -- Local terms of alliance -- The frequency of "close marriage" -- Economy and "close marriage" -- Marriages of a patronymic group -- Marital alliance: form and economy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendices -- Notes on field research and statistical sources -- Descriptive table of dispute settlement -- Arabic documents -- Statistical tables and figures -- Bibliography -- Index. ISBN 9781850439189