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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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Description
xi, 227 pages illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Harvard Middle Eastern studies, 14
Uniform Title
Harvard Middle Eastern studies ; 14.
Subject
  • Ethnology > Iraq
  • Ethnology
  • Rural conditions
  • Social organization > Iraq
  • Reclamation > Iraq
  • Social change > Iraq
  • Tribes > Iraq
  • El Shabana
  • Authority
  • Iraq > Rural conditions
  • Iraq
  • Daghara (Iraq)
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