Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

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ID12120210
AutoresJoseph J Hobbs (Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Missouri. Since 1980 most of his fieldwork has been with the Maʿaza of the Eastern Desert, and with the Jabaliya and other groups of the southern Sinai. He is author of the books Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness and Mount Sinai (both University of Texas Press)., autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas123-146
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNomadic Peoples (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0822-7942 • E-ISSN: 1752-2366
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3197/np.2014.180208
OpenAlexW2325026609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas1

This paper analyses Ma'aza Bedouin toponymy in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert. Ma'aza people started naming places as they began immigrating from northwest Arabia about 250 years ago. The main place objects are valleys, mountains, water sources, trees and tracks. These are named after individuals and groups, historic events, perennial plants, animals and their behaviour, material culture and environmental perceptions. Place naming helps assert the people's claim to this land. The named cultural landscape is a kind of autobiography that continues to be written and is perpetuated only orally. For nomadic pastoralists, place names help to reduce risk in a challenging environment and to conserve natural resources, especially woody trees that sustain livestock during drought. Sedentarisation is threatening this rich body of oral tradition

Archaeology · Desert (philosophy · Ethnology · Geography · Livestock · Natural (archaeology · Pastoralism · Perennial stream · STREAMS · Toponymy · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Forestry

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