: new perspectives on peripatetic peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Berland, Joseph C creator Berland, Joseph C Rao, Aparna text London Westport, Connectict 2004 monographic eng

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vi, 342 pages 24cm. Essays on peripatetic peoples that stress their roles as cultural brokers, entrepreneurial middlemen, and traders. 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. / Joseph C Berland Social sciences Groups of people Nomads Cultural relations Human territoriality SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations 305.9069 BER 9780897897716 Variety Books Publishers & Distributors :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 190806 20190806135817.0