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Shaykh and Effendi; changing patterns of authority among the El Shabana of southern Iraq
- Title
- Shaykh and Effendi; changing patterns of authority among the El Shabana of southern Iraq [by] Robert A. Fernea.
- Author
- Fernea, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1932-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 227 pages illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Harvard Middle Eastern studies, 14
- Uniform Title
- Harvard Middle Eastern studies ; 14.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 211-214.
- Contents
- The setting : southern Iraq -- Ecological and social history -- Contemporary land use and income -- The town of Daghara -- The El Shabana tribal system -- The Shaykhship and the dominant lineage -- Changing patterns of local authority : irrigation -- Shaykh and Effendi -- A technical description of gravity-flow irrigation -- A technical description of the government canals in the Daghara area from which the El Shabana trible takes water -- Selected examples of irrigation problems.
- ISBN
- 0674805852
- 9780674805859
- LCCN
- 70088804
- OCLC
- ocm00057343
- 57343
- SCSB-9158409
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library