Title Fertile bonds : Bedouin class, kinship, and gender in the Bekaa Valley / Suzanne E. Joseph.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Note on transliteration -- Introduction and overview -- Nomadic lives in transition -- (Un)stratified reproduction: class, tribe, and culture -- Gender myths and demographic realities -- Marriage between kin -- Population and poverty: a capitalist trap? -- Class differentiation of demographic regimes -- Demography on the nomadic periphery -- Conclusions.
Summary	A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world.
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Subject	Bedouins -- Lebanon -- Biqāʻ Valley.
	Bedouins.
	Lebanon -- Biqāʻ Valley.
	Families -- Lebanon -- Biqāʻ Valley.
	Families.
	Fertility, Human -- Lebanon -- Biqāʻ Valley.
	Fertility, Human.
	Sex role -- Lebanon -- Biqāʻ Valley.
	Sex role.
	Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Gender roles.
Other Form:	Print version: Joseph, Suzanne E. Fertile bonds. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2013 9780813044613 (DLC) 2013007074 (OCoLC)813540840
ISBN	9780813048482 (electronic book)
	0813048486 (electronic book)
	9780813046389 (ebook)
	0813046386 (ebook)
	9780813044613
	0813044618