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Title: | Economic development and the family in Arab tribal societies |
Author: | Mahgoub, Mohamed |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research |
Issue: | 30-31 |
Pages: | 85-99 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Arab countries Egypt |
Subject: | family |
Abstract: | The results presented in this paper on economic development and the resultant structural changes in Arab traditional families are the product of field research conducted by the author in Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He deals in turn with the traditional Arab family as a unit in a tribe, the economic and social functions of the traditional Arab family, customary social stratification and endogamy in Arab families, the extended and compound traditional Arab family, urbanization in rural and in Bedouin Arab societies and the impact of sedentarization, oil and structural changes in Arab countries, the contemporary system of social stratification and the Arab family, the position of women, the division of labour, and marital choice in the contemporary Arab family. Bibliogr. |