The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule / Edition 1

by Smadar Lavie

Overview

The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin land has been a political football, tossed back and forth between Israel and Egypt at least five times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520075528
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	10/16/1990
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Smadar Lavie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Creativity in Anthropology.