TY - BOOK AU - Berland, Joseph C AU - Berland, Joseph C AU - Rao, Aparna TI - Customary strangers: : new perspectives on peripatetic peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia SN - 9780897897716 U1 - 305.9069 BER PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Westport, Connectict KW - Social sciences KW - Groups of people KW - Nomads KW - Cultural relations KW - Human territoriality KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations N1 - 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 N2 - Essays on peripatetic peoples that stress their roles as cultural brokers, entrepreneurial middlemen, and traders. ER -