This political anthropology is the first to explicitly utilize the family as a basic conceptual tool in understanding a Middle Eastern political system. Springborg scrutinizes the familial, social, and political context of Marei's career, and discusses how the rural nobility of the late nineteenth century has used regional, family, patron-client, and small-group loyalties to maintain its power under Nasser and Sadat.
- ISBN10 1512807540
- ISBN13 9781512807547
- Publish Date 11 November 2016 (first published 29 April 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English
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