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Property Control and Social Strategies in Settlers in a Middle Eastern Plain
Barbara C. Aswad
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In this work, anthropologist Barbara C. Aswad presents an analysis of social organization and land control of a Middle Eastern tribal society that has become sedentarized, with particular focus on kinship and marriage and other strategies of mobility. Aswad did her research in villages of the Al Shiukh tribe in southern Turkey along the Syrian border in 1964 and 1965.
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Contents
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Introduction
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I. Historical and Ecological Setting
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Ecology and the Distribution of Peoples in the Hatay Province
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The Amik Plain
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II. The Struggle for Land and the Organization of Villages in the Plain
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Turkman Settlement into the Estate System
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Al Shiukh Settlement into Core and Fringe Villages
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III. Patterns of Descent, Inheritance and Marriage Among the Al Shiukh
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Descent and Inheritance Rules
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Bridewealth (Naqd)
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Vengeance
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Marriage Patterns According to Rank and Landholdings
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Polygyny and the Dispersal Ratio of Marriages
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IV. Marriage and Other Alliances by the Al Shiukh in the Struggle for the Control of Resources: A Diachronic Analysis
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Variance in Marriage Patterns Over Five Generations
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Principles of Descent Group Discord Continuity: Marriages and other Strategies
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A Diachronic Examination of the Cases
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Behavioral Patterns in Light of Alliance Formations
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V. Conclusion
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Appendixes
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A. Nineteenth Century Ottoman Tapu Defter Describing the Settlement of the Reyhanli Confederation
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B. Ottoman Land Classifications
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C. Types of Work Contracts in the Hatay
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D. Settlement Pattern of Sharecroppers' Mud and Reed Houses on a Turkman Estate: A Freehand Sketch
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E. Annual Agricultural Work Cycle
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F. Income Distribution of Three Villages
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G. Annual Village Income for Core Village
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H. Annual Village Expenditures for Core Village
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I. Tests to Isolate Size Factor in Marriage Preference Patterns within the Al Shiukh Patronymic Section
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J. Observed Minus Expected Frequency Choices by Sublineage among the Al Shiukh, Two and one half Generations
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K. Index of Preference of Sublineage I for Marriage with Sublineage J among the Al Shiukh, Two and one half Generations
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L. Observed Minus Expected Frequency Distribution of Marriage Choices by Lineage among the Al Shiukh, Four and one half Generations
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M. Index of Preference of Lineage I for Marriage with Lineage J among the Al Shiukh, Four and one half Generations
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Bibliography
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Published: 1971
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-0-932206-42-8 (paper)
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