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BL
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586277
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b415496
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| Main Entry
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Joseph, Suzanne E
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| Title & Author
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Fertile bonds : : Bedouin class, kinship, and gender in the Bekaa Valley /\ Suzanne E. Joseph
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| Publication Statement
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Gainesville :: University Press of Florida,, c2013
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| Page. NO
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233 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813044613 (alk. paper)
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: 0813044618 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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
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Bedouins-- Lebanon-- Biqāʻ Valley
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Families-- Lebanon-- Biqāʻ Valley
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Fertility, Human-- Lebanon-- Biqāʻ Valley
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Sex role-- Lebanon-- Biqāʻ Valley
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Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon), Social life and customs
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| Dewey Classification
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304.6089/927205692
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| LC Classification
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DS80.55.B43J67 2013
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