Bedouin law from Sinai & the Negev : justice without government / Clinton Bailey.

New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2009]

©2009

KM88.5.B44 B35 2009

Bedouin law from Sinai and the Negev

9780300153248 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0300153244 (hbk. : alk. paper)

xvi, 375 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

(OCoLC)317471823

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the world's leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value. Bailey shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and indexes.

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