Peter Lienhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 209316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lienhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lienhardt |
| SIGNATURE | LIENHARDT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Town Politics in Eastern Arabia in the 1950s
This article analyses the traditional political institutions of the Arab shaikhdoms of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States (later the United Arab Emirates). Based on anthropological fieldwork during 1953–6, as well as historical research, it links the political authority prevailing in the Gulf in the 1950s with earlier political developments in the nineteenth century. It argues that political change in the shaikhdoms, both past and pre…
Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia
Towns and Maritime Activities
All the towns of the Trucial Coast lie on the seashore and have depended for their existence on the sea rather than the desert. Nevertheless, even now, in spite of all the new building that is going on, they retain a desert flavour, different from those Middle Eastern towns and cities where a large peasant population intervenes between bedouin and urban life and provides the strongest element in urban recruitment. In Eastern Arabia the desert san…
Facts, theories and values in Middle Eastern education
When I was preparing my paper for this conference, I received from Dr Al-Shahi a copy of his paper. I found that he had covered the ground I had chosen -indeed, cut it from under my feet by giving a much more knowledgeable account than I could have provided. Unlike Dr Al-Shahi, I lack direct experience, because I was not educated in the Middle East and have never taught there. The nearest I ever got to teaching in a Middle Eastern university was …
Short reviews
Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p. Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p. Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN S…
The Medicine Man
General and Ethnology
Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa
Journal Article Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa Get access Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa, by Henry Serrano Villard. Cornell University Press, New York. Peter Lienhardt Peter Lienhardt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 223, April 1957, Pages 170–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094481 Published: 01 April 1957
Village Politics in Trucial Oman
The Medicine Man
Short reviews
Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p. Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p. Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN S…
General and Ethnology
Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa
Journal Article Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa Get access Libya—The New Arab Kingdom of North Africa, by Henry Serrano Villard. Cornell University Press, New York. Peter Lienhardt Peter Lienhardt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 223, April 1957, Pages 170–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094481 Published: 01 April 1957
Village Politics in Trucial Oman
General and Ethnology
The Medicine Man
Facts, theories and values in Middle Eastern education
When I was preparing my paper for this conference, I received from Dr Al-Shahi a copy of his paper. I found that he had covered the ground I had chosen -indeed, cut it from under my feet by giving a much more knowledgeable account than I could have provided. Unlike Dr Al-Shahi, I lack direct experience, because I was not educated in the Middle East and have never taught there. The nearest I ever got to teaching in a Middle Eastern university was …
Short reviews
Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p. Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p. Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN S…
Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia
Towns and Maritime Activities
All the towns of the Trucial Coast lie on the seashore and have depended for their existence on the sea rather than the desert. Nevertheless, even now, in spite of all the new building that is going on, they retain a desert flavour, different from those Middle Eastern towns and cities where a large peasant population intervenes between bedouin and urban life and provides the strongest element in urban recruitment. In Eastern Arabia the desert san…
Town Politics in Eastern Arabia in the 1950s
This article analyses the traditional political institutions of the Arab shaikhdoms of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States (later the United Arab Emirates). Based on anthropological fieldwork during 1953–6, as well as historical research, it links the political authority prevailing in the Gulf in the 1950s with earlier political developments in the nineteenth century. It argues that political change in the shaikhdoms, both past and pre…
Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works)