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| Genre/Form: | Kongress Leiden (1995) |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Customary strangers. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004 (OCoLC)608717756 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph C Berland; Aparna Rao |
| ISBN: | 0897897714 9780897897716 |
| OCLC Number: | 52920444 |
| Description: | vi, 342 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Unveiling the stranger: a new look at peripatetic peoples / Joseph C. Berland, Aparna Rao -- "Once upon a time": reconciling the stranger / Michael J. Casimir -- PART I: THE MIDDLE EAST -- Roving traders among the Bedouin of South Sinai / Emanuel Marx -- Biography and identity in Damascus: a Syrian Nawar chief / Frank Meyer -- PART II: AFRICA -- Afflictions of the stomach: Smith as "stranger" among the Tuareg / Susan Rasmussen -- "They work to eat and they eat to work": M'allemîn craftsmen, classification, and discourse among the Bidân nobility of Mauritania / Mariella Villasante Cervello -- Strangers in their own land: social resources and domestic fluidity of the peripatetic Karretjie people of the South African Karoo / Michael De Jongh -- Local strangers: the Nile Valley Gypsies in the ethnic mosaic of Sudan / Bernhard Streck -- Hunters, foragers, and singing smiths: the metamorphoses of peripatetic peoples in Africa / Michael Bollig -- PART III: ASIA -- Why Bulbuls bark: conflict, continuity, and identity among professional strangers / Joseph C. Berland -- Professional strangers in urban Pakistan: a note on peripatetic specialists / Jürgen Wasim Frembgen -- Strangers and liminal beings: some thoughts on peripatetics, insiders, and outsiders in Southwest Asia / Aparna Rao -- Enduring strangers: mughat, lyuli, and other peripatetics in the social fabric of Central Asia / Shirin Akiner -- The Orang Suku Laut: owners of or strangers in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia? / Cynthia Chou. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Joseph C. Berland and Aparna Rao. |
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