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Book Description
In this perceptive analysis of the Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf, Peter Lienhardt discusses the common social patterns manifest in their tribal structure, the relations between men and women, the economics of pearl fishing, the growth of towns, and the complex relationship between the ruling shaikhs and their subjects. The advent of oil wealth radically altered the economic and social conditions of the region, but the sheikhs have continued to play an important political role in their modern states.
About the Author
Peter Lienhardt is former Faculty Lecturer in Middle Eastern Sociology at the Institue of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
Ahmed Al-Shahi is Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this perceptive analysis of the Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf, Peter Lienhardt discusses the common social patterns manifest in their tribal structure, the relations between men and women, the economics of pearl fishing, the growth of towns, and the complex relationship between the ruling shaikhs and their subjects. The advent of oil wealth radically altered the economic and social conditions of the region, but the sheikhs have continued to play an important political role in their modern states.
Author Biography: Peter Lienhardt is former Faculty Lecturer in Middle Eastern Sociology at the Institue of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
Author Biography: Ahmed Al-Shahi is Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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In his 1957 Ph.D. dissertation for Oxford University, sociologist Lienhardt (1928-86) reported on his field work in the Trucial Coast of Oman between November 1953 and February 1956. Since then he rewrote many of the chapters, and at his death left a combination of typed and handwritten pages in various stages of revision. Al-Shahi (social anthropology and Middle East studies, Oxford U.), his former student, close friend, and literary executor, has assembled the material and prepared it for publication with editorial notes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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