Fertile bonds: bedouin class, kinship, and gender in the bekaa valley
Auteur :
Joseph, Suzanne E.
Éditeur :
University Press of Florida
ISBN :
9780813054100
Date de publication :
14 févr. 2017
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,5 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
367 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
With an average of over nine children per family, older cohorts of Bedouin in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon have one of the highest fertility rates in the world. Many married couples in this pastoral community are close relatives. To outsiders, such family norms attract assumptions of Arab “backwardness,†poverty, and sexism. Remarkably, Fertile Bonds flips these stereotypes.