Changing nomads in a changing world / edited by Joseph Ginat and Anatoly M Khazanov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Great scholar, great man, great friend (remembering Ernest Gellner) / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- Introduction / Joseph Ginat and Anatoly M. Khazanov -- Pastoralists in the contemporary world: the problem of survival / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- Who are these nomads? What do they do? Continuous change or changing continuities? / William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster -- Being Bedouin: nomads and tribes in the Arab social imagination / Dale F. Eickelman -- Coping with change in Arabia: the Bedouin community and the idea of development / Ugo Fabietti -- Bedouin settlement policy in Israel, 1964-1996 / Amon Medzini -- Continuing education and community development for Bedouin / Helmut Danner and Maha El-Rashidi -- The jôz musarrib: an unusual form of marriage among the Arabs / Frank H. Stewart -- The segmentary lineage system: a reappraisal / Sharon Baştuğ -- The cactus was our kin: pastoralism in the spiny desert of southern Madagascar / Jeffrey C. Kaufmann -- The role of tribal groups in state expansion and consolidation: the northern Arabian Peninsula during and after the First World War / Joseph Kostiner -- The missing link: 'badu' and 'tribal' honor as components in the Iraqi decision to invade Kuwait / Amatzia Baram -- Preservation and change in Bedouin societies in Israel / Joseph Ginat -- Contemporary Mongol concepts on being a pastoralist: institutional continuity, change and substitutes / Slawoj Szynkiewicz -- Understanding reindeer pastoralism in modern Siberia: ecological continuity versus state engineering / Igor I. Krupnik.ik.