CHINESE

Domestic government: kinship, community and polity in North Yemen

By Martha Mundy

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
Year
1995
ISBN
9780755612178, 9781850439189
Language
chinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19335365 bytes)
Pages
\328
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 01:50:27

Description

This is an exploration of the notion of “household” as the site and organizing model, not only of production but also of politics in Yemen’s past and present. Based on three years’ fieldwork, the study is written from the vantage point of women’s society but, insisting that domestic government is not the same as women’s private domain, it is not confined to a study of women. Instead, Mundy links the idea and organization of the household with property and suggests subtle ways in which household and house relate to locality, region and wider notions of government and legal authority. Seeking to place the study of Arab society within the mainstream of anthropolgy and social history, this should be of interest to students of sociology, development studies and gender studies, as well as to anthropologists.

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