TY - JOUR
T1 - The Bedouin in contemporary Syria
T2 - The persistence of tribal authority and control
AU - Chatty, Dawn
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The author thanks Profs. Yuan Rong and Zhang Yuhui for their help. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19631060), Mathematical Tian Yuan Foundation, Qiu Shi Science & Technology Foundation, RFDP and MCEC.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Little information is available regarding contemporary relations between Bedouin tribes and the Syrian state apparatus. These ties are mainly expressed through relationships of patronage and clientism between tribal leaders and state operatives. The Bedouin tribes of Syria continue to function as groups tied in networks of real and fictive kinship; these bonds provide the tribal members with a solidarity and cohesiveness which the state has not been able to suppress despite decades of effort.
AB - Little information is available regarding contemporary relations between Bedouin tribes and the Syrian state apparatus. These ties are mainly expressed through relationships of patronage and clientism between tribal leaders and state operatives. The Bedouin tribes of Syria continue to function as groups tied in networks of real and fictive kinship; these bonds provide the tribal members with a solidarity and cohesiveness which the state has not been able to suppress despite decades of effort.
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U2 - 10.3751/64.1.12
DO - 10.3751/64.1.12
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:76349122240
VL - 64
SP - 29
EP - 49
JO - The Middle East Journal
JF - The Middle East Journal
SN - 0026-3141
IS - 1
ER -