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University of Oxford : A - Anthropology
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Article title
Les Mots et les Choses: L'identité tribale en Arabie
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Etudes Rurales
Article number
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Volume number
2009/2
Issue number
184
First page of article
185
ISSN of journal
0014-2182
Year of publication
2009
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
Yes
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
An invited paper for a collection on 'The Tribe at a Time of Globalisation', this article breaks down the reading of tribe as a solidary group. Beginning with Berque on North Africa, and using the author's work on South Arabia and early accounts of North Arabia, it argues that 'tribe' denotes assumptions about relatedness that generate identities better thought of as producing history than as historical phenomena. These assumptions now encounter new assumptions about political formations, but people's understandings of 'tribe' depend less upon 'political' power than on tacit redefinitions of relatedness.
