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Customary strangers : new perspectives on peripatetic peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia

Author: Joseph C Berland; Aparna Rao
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
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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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