Summary
An anthropologist quoted in Chapter 5 of Rediscovering Palestine for the argument Doumani adopts on bedouin-settled relations: the basic opposition is not between nomads and sedentaries but between those who engage in the production of surplus and those who control it (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 3985-4100).
Details
- Asad argues that in the historic Middle East pastoral, agricultural and trade activities are interdependent parts of a single economic system, in consequence of which popular rebellions have often involved temporary alliances of peasants and pastoralists (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 3985-4100).
- Doumani says soap’s social history fits Asad’s contention that interdependency of economic activities was the organizing framework, with the supply of Qilw the everyday relationship that tied bedouins to Jabal Nablus most thoroughly (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
Related pages
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Qilw, Jabal Nablus