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Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender by Beshara Doumani

Authors: Beshara Doumani (Editor), Beshara Doumani
ISBN-13: 9780791456804, ISBN-10: 0791456803
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Beshara Doumani

Book Synopsis

An international group of specialists in anthropology and history are the contributors of this group of 12 papers on different aspects of family life and law in the Middle East from the 16th century through the present. Individual topics include the adoption of monogamy by local rulers in 19th-century Egypt, changes in the perception of women's work among Lebanese immigrants to the US, family law in 18th- and 19th-century Syria, and marriage customs in a tribal area of Iran. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
	List of Tables and Figures
1	Introduction	1
2	Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo	23
3	Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households	51
4	From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family	77
5	Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations	101
6	"Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940	119
7	Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran	151
8	Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860	173
9	Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine	201
10	Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham	229
11	Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt	247
12	"Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar	271
	Bibliography	301
	Contributors	329
	Index	333
	SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East	341