Gideon M Kressel
Biographic Data
| ID | 106850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon M Kressel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kressel |
| SIGNATURE | KRESSEL G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The World of the Dead as Viewed among the Negev Bedouin
Human beliefs in resurrection and life after death, based on lasting exchanges between earth and heaven that prevail in human societies ubiquitously, are presented here and analysed with regard to the customs and rituals of the Negev Bedouin. The article looks at patterns of the mourning process and the different social functions and outcomes of that process. The influence of mystics and the Bedouin's views on death are discussed. Pre-Islamic bur…
Badal Marriages among the Negev Bedouin
The practice of men swapping daughters for wives or nieces as daughters-in-law is evident among the Bedouin. Although this pattern has its roots in ancient Arab culture and is a unique exception to theories of exchange marriage (EM), there is little reference to the circumstances of its occurrence in the anthropological literature. This article reviews the background of and suggests explanations for this practice. EM is shown to be a strategy tha…
Labour Division and Family Cohesion among Bedouin Flock Raiser Households in Scattered Rural Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
There are approximately 8,000 Bedouin families living in scattered rural settlements (also known as spontaneous hamlets) in the Negev desert, southern Israel, and about a thousand of these raise sheep and goats for their livelihood. These families are considered to be on the economic margins of Israeli society, in that analyses of Bedouin flock raising have shown marginal profitability and even losses. Why then do these families continue raising …
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Forest Fire Control and Bedouin Pastoralism in Israel's Afforested Drylands
Resume Une analyse couts et benefices menee darts une foret en climat semi-aride (Israel) montre que le paturage forestier previent les feux efficacement et a faible cout. Le controle informel de la foret par un groupe pastoral peut, lui aussi, servir a la proteger. D'autres pays en zones seches pourraient integrer avantageusement le paturage a la gestion forestiere. Resumen Se realizo un analisis de costos-beneficios en un bosque de una zona sem…
Let Shepherding Endure
Perceptions of the Ideal Mediator
Although research on mediation documents the ideal problem-solving strategy of the mediator, the steps involved in developing a successful mediating process, and the political and economic resources that facilitate mediation, there is usually no indication that the members of both sides might have different attitudes toward these variables and in particular toward the personality traits of the ideal mediator. Data that document the perceptions of…
Herders and the Amelioration of Range
I spent 29 March to 16 April (2003) in India, as the guest of BAIF. I, Mr P.K. Shirsath and Mr A. Bidhe were also the guests of three other NGOs. The four NGOs are: * BAIF--Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation is a development/research foundation committed to sustainable rural development, food security and clean environment. Pune, Mahrashtra. * GIDE--Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology is an organisation for the conservation of Banni, Grasslands…
The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East
The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East. Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 217 pp
Domesticating Revolution
Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in. Bulgarian Village. Gerald W. Creed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. ix. 304 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography, index
Vergogna e genere
Outclassed by Former Outcasts
People caught in circumstances of social upheaval differ in the ways in which they adjust to instability and change. Occasionally individuals at less privileged socioeconomic levels engage in socially devalued practices such as the small-scale trading enterprises that have been degraded ideologically during 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria. In this article we explore the ways in which people adjust to change by examining ethnographically th…
Ḥaqq Akhu Manshad
In several Middle Eastern countries, bedouin law, which exists only in an oral tradition, is today applied alongsidethe increasingly used shariʿa and civil law. Jurisdiction among these three judicial systems is compartmentalized, but sometimes categorizing of individual cases is difficult. Bedouin law also differs considerably from one region to another. The bedouin in this study belong to the ʿArab alʿAzazme, the tribe that inhabits the area st…
Shame and Gender
Gender segregation among groups of Bedouin now living in Ramla, Israel, is examined and compared with the parallel phenomenon among the Bedouin of the Negev Highlands. Both groups leave to the mother the task of inculcating in girls the notions of claustration and propriety and, frequently, of supervising the mutilation of genitals. Why do mothers accept this role and thereby perpetuate the gender-relation perceptions of shame (feminity) and hono…
Continuity and endurance of patrilineage in towns
shows centralization of authority in the states and a retention of traditional micro-structure. In contrast to the modernizing state's organs, cohesive groups of agnates remain, by and large, the cornerstone for structuring community life and for regulating primary relationships. The pastoralists' 'tribe' of the sedentaries' 'lineage' (I regard the two as similar) is an entity which is hardly noticeable to the foreign eye because tribesmen are ra…
Prescriptive Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage
Revue des theories anthropologiques sur le mariage prescriptif avec le cousin parallele patrilateral et etude des motivations de la realisation de cette norme au niveau individuel et Collectif dans une communaute bedouine de Ramla, Israel
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
Bride-Price Reconsidered
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
Outclassed by Former Outcasts
People caught in circumstances of social upheaval differ in the ways in which they adjust to instability and change. Occasionally individuals at less privileged socioeconomic levels engage in socially devalued practices such as the small-scale trading enterprises that have been degraded ideologically during 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria. In this article we explore the ways in which people adjust to change by examining ethnographically th…
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
Shame and Gender
Gender segregation among groups of Bedouin now living in Ramla, Israel, is examined and compared with the parallel phenomenon among the Bedouin of the Negev Highlands. Both groups leave to the mother the task of inculcating in girls the notions of claustration and propriety and, frequently, of supervising the mutilation of genitals. Why do mothers accept this role and thereby perpetuate the gender-relation perceptions of shame (feminity) and hono…
Continuity and endurance of patrilineage in towns
shows centralization of authority in the states and a retention of traditional micro-structure. In contrast to the modernizing state's organs, cohesive groups of agnates remain, by and large, the cornerstone for structuring community life and for regulating primary relationships. The pastoralists' 'tribe' of the sedentaries' 'lineage' (I regard the two as similar) is an entity which is hardly noticeable to the foreign eye because tribesmen are ra…
Prescriptive Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage
Revue des theories anthropologiques sur le mariage prescriptif avec le cousin parallele patrilateral et etude des motivations de la realisation de cette norme au niveau individuel et Collectif dans une communaute bedouine de Ramla, Israel
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Ḥaqq Akhu Manshad
In several Middle Eastern countries, bedouin law, which exists only in an oral tradition, is today applied alongsidethe increasingly used shariʿa and civil law. Jurisdiction among these three judicial systems is compartmentalized, but sometimes categorizing of individual cases is difficult. Bedouin law also differs considerably from one region to another. The bedouin in this study belong to the ʿArab alʿAzazme, the tribe that inhabits the area st…
The World of the Dead as Viewed among the Negev Bedouin
Human beliefs in resurrection and life after death, based on lasting exchanges between earth and heaven that prevail in human societies ubiquitously, are presented here and analysed with regard to the customs and rituals of the Negev Bedouin. The article looks at patterns of the mourning process and the different social functions and outcomes of that process. The influence of mystics and the Bedouin's views on death are discussed. Pre-Islamic bur…
Badal Marriages among the Negev Bedouin
The practice of men swapping daughters for wives or nieces as daughters-in-law is evident among the Bedouin. Although this pattern has its roots in ancient Arab culture and is a unique exception to theories of exchange marriage (EM), there is little reference to the circumstances of its occurrence in the anthropological literature. This article reviews the background of and suggests explanations for this practice. EM is shown to be a strategy tha…
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Forest Fire Control and Bedouin Pastoralism in Israel's Afforested Drylands
Resume Une analyse couts et benefices menee darts une foret en climat semi-aride (Israel) montre que le paturage forestier previent les feux efficacement et a faible cout. Le controle informel de la foret par un groupe pastoral peut, lui aussi, servir a la proteger. D'autres pays en zones seches pourraient integrer avantageusement le paturage a la gestion forestiere. Resumen Se realizo un analisis de costos-beneficios en un bosque de una zona sem…
Bride-Price Reconsidered
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
Prescriptive Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage
Revue des theories anthropologiques sur le mariage prescriptif avec le cousin parallele patrilateral et etude des motivations de la realisation de cette norme au niveau individuel et Collectif dans une communaute bedouine de Ramla, Israel
Continuity and endurance of patrilineage in towns
shows centralization of authority in the states and a retention of traditional micro-structure. In contrast to the modernizing state's organs, cohesive groups of agnates remain, by and large, the cornerstone for structuring community life and for regulating primary relationships. The pastoralists' 'tribe' of the sedentaries' 'lineage' (I regard the two as similar) is an entity which is hardly noticeable to the foreign eye because tribesmen are ra…
Shame and Gender
Gender segregation among groups of Bedouin now living in Ramla, Israel, is examined and compared with the parallel phenomenon among the Bedouin of the Negev Highlands. Both groups leave to the mother the task of inculcating in girls the notions of claustration and propriety and, frequently, of supervising the mutilation of genitals. Why do mothers accept this role and thereby perpetuate the gender-relation perceptions of shame (feminity) and hono…
Ḥaqq Akhu Manshad
In several Middle Eastern countries, bedouin law, which exists only in an oral tradition, is today applied alongsidethe increasingly used shariʿa and civil law. Jurisdiction among these three judicial systems is compartmentalized, but sometimes categorizing of individual cases is difficult. Bedouin law also differs considerably from one region to another. The bedouin in this study belong to the ʿArab alʿAzazme, the tribe that inhabits the area st…
Outclassed by Former Outcasts
People caught in circumstances of social upheaval differ in the ways in which they adjust to instability and change. Occasionally individuals at less privileged socioeconomic levels engage in socially devalued practices such as the small-scale trading enterprises that have been degraded ideologically during 45 years of communist rule in Bulgaria. In this article we explore the ways in which people adjust to change by examining ethnographically th…
Vergogna e genere
Domesticating Revolution
Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in. Bulgarian Village. Gerald W. Creed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. ix. 304 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography, index
Let Shepherding Endure
Perceptions of the Ideal Mediator
Although research on mediation documents the ideal problem-solving strategy of the mediator, the steps involved in developing a successful mediating process, and the political and economic resources that facilitate mediation, there is usually no indication that the members of both sides might have different attitudes toward these variables and in particular toward the personality traits of the ideal mediator. Data that document the perceptions of…
Herders and the Amelioration of Range
I spent 29 March to 16 April (2003) in India, as the guest of BAIF. I, Mr P.K. Shirsath and Mr A. Bidhe were also the guests of three other NGOs. The four NGOs are: * BAIF--Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation is a development/research foundation committed to sustainable rural development, food security and clean environment. Pune, Mahrashtra. * GIDE--Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology is an organisation for the conservation of Banni, Grasslands…
The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East
The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East. Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 217 pp
Forest Fire Control and Bedouin Pastoralism in Israel's Afforested Drylands
Resume Une analyse couts et benefices menee darts une foret en climat semi-aride (Israel) montre que le paturage forestier previent les feux efficacement et a faible cout. Le controle informel de la foret par un groupe pastoral peut, lui aussi, servir a la proteger. D'autres pays en zones seches pourraient integrer avantageusement le paturage a la gestion forestiere. Resumen Se realizo un analisis de costos-beneficios en un bosque de una zona sem…
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Flock Use among Bedouin in 'Spontaneous' Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
Approximately a thousand Bedouin families living in unrecognised, scattered settlements in the Negev desert, Israel, raise sheep and goats even though this enterprise shows marginal profits and, sometimes, losses. The aim of this study was to examine the uses of flocks among Bedouin households. It emerged that the flocks were kept for status, preservation of social networks, source of income, employment, family cohesion and maintaining land claim…
Labour Division and Family Cohesion among Bedouin Flock Raiser Households in Scattered Rural Settlements in the Negev Desert, Southern Israel
There are approximately 8,000 Bedouin families living in scattered rural settlements (also known as spontaneous hamlets) in the Negev desert, southern Israel, and about a thousand of these raise sheep and goats for their livelihood. These families are considered to be on the economic margins of Israeli society, in that analyses of Bedouin flock raising have shown marginal profitability and even losses. Why then do these families continue raising …
Badal Marriages among the Negev Bedouin
The practice of men swapping daughters for wives or nieces as daughters-in-law is evident among the Bedouin. Although this pattern has its roots in ancient Arab culture and is a unique exception to theories of exchange marriage (EM), there is little reference to the circumstances of its occurrence in the anthropological literature. This article reviews the background of and suggests explanations for this practice. EM is shown to be a strategy tha…
The World of the Dead as Viewed among the Negev Bedouin
Human beliefs in resurrection and life after death, based on lasting exchanges between earth and heaven that prevail in human societies ubiquitously, are presented here and analysed with regard to the customs and rituals of the Negev Bedouin. The article looks at patterns of the mourning process and the different social functions and outcomes of that process. The influence of mystics and the Bedouin's views on death are discussed. Pre-Islamic bur…
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