 | The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule Subjects: Bedouins -- Egypt -- Janūb Sīnāʿ; Janūb Sīnāʿ (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations; Storytelling -- Egypt -- Janūb Sīnāʿ; Storytelling -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- Janūb Sīnāʿ; Israelis -- Egypt -- Janūb Sīnāʿ; Lavie, a Jewish anthropologist who lived among the Mzeina Bedouins of the South Sinai Desert for four years, reveals that the tribe deals with foreign occupation through the nonviolent practice of ritualistic storytelling and literary allegory. Photos. (Oct.)no PW review (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Lavie Smadar : Smadar Lavie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Creativity in Anthropology . |
