Marieke Brandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marieke Brandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandt |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3258-8139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tribal encounters in the 'age of openness
The Tale of a Feud
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the catastrophe of the Ḥūthī wars. Mujāhid’s life is a story of on…
Tribes in Modern Yemen
In Yemen, "tribe" is a historically rooted, emic concept of social representation. Rooted in remotest antiquity, over the last centuries the concept of tribe in Yemen has undergone transformations, but also featured aspects of continuity. Today, with the emergence of massive political change, the eruption of popular uprisings, armed conflicts, external military intervention and the associated weakness of the state, tribalism seems to be gaining i…
A tribe and its states
Across the Middle East, tribes and states have entered into different relationships. In many countries, tribes were confronted with massive attempts at interference by their respective states. The northern Yemeni Republic, in contrast, remained a weak state with little coercive instruments at its disposal. Its rule was rather based on indirect means: the politics of patronage, the politicization of development efforts, and the exploitation of tri…
Sects and Politics
This chapter discusses the sectarian and political developments that unfolded in northernmost Yemen’s complex and competitive environment. It explores the spread of Salafism in Yemen’s Zaydi heartland, and the interplay between Sunni radicalization and Zaydi counter-radicalization, and the various sectarian, tribal, and political stages on which this radicalization took place. Since the turn of the millennium, the Zaydi revival has been significa…
The Saudi Influence
This chapter explores the various manifestations of Saudi influence in Yemen’s extreme north, particularly with regard to the role of Saudi patronage politics in protection of the controversial and vulnerable border between the two countries. The beginnings of Saudi patronage policy can be traced back to the Saudi-Yemeni War of 1934 and the Treaty of Ṭāʾif, which resolved it. Since 1934 tribal elites in the Yemeni borderlands played a vital role …
Into the Maze of Tribalism 2004–6
Chapter 5 reconstructs the course and the dynamics of the first three rounds of the Houthi conflict, also called the ‘Ṣaʿdah War’, from its eruption in June 2004 until the February 2006 ceasefire, which successfully brought the third Ṣaʿdah War to a halt and ushered into several months of detente. It shows how, in the course of the war, the sectarian and social-revolutionary thrust of Houthism began to fuse with existing open and latent conflicts…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter provides a detailed summary of the research results and reflects them against the background of the research question and the principles of Social Anthropology. It argues that the study of local arenas and ‘background’ themes of kinship, family, and tribe are linked to the hard surfaces of national and regional politics, and that the micro-and meso-sociological study of an anthropologist makes a substantial, if not fundamen…
Territories and Societies
This chapter provides the reader with basic knowledge of the research area and its inhabitants. It starts with a brief overview of its topographical features and its diverse natural landscapes, followed by a discussion of the concept of ‘tribe’. The chapter then outlines the basic features of northern Yemen’s tribal system. It introduces the various tribes of the research area-Khawlān b. ʿĀmir in the area’s west, and Wāʾilah, Dahm and Sufyān in t…
Elite Transformations
This chapter reconstructs the twisted evolution of the republican order in northernmost Yemen. It traces the research area’s profound socio-political and economic transformations since the beginning of the 1962 revolution and civil war that led to the overthrow of the Zaydi imamate, and describes the transition from the imamic kingdom into the republican order. Incomplete state building, underdevelopment, and the political and economic empowermen…
Faustian Bargains 2011–14
This chapter summarizes the period between the end of the sixth Ṣaʿdah War in February 2010 and the Houthis’ seizure of the capital, Sanaʿa, in September 2014. It discusses the Houthi seizure of power in the Ṣaʿdah governorate and the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘Change Revolution’ in Yemen in 2011, the GCC Initiative, the fall of President Salih and his rapprochement with the Houthis, and the National Dialogue Conference. The Houthis’ con…
Tribes and Politics in Yemen
'Tribes and Politics in Yemen' tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes
Arabia Incognita
It requires courage to depict the complexities and conundrums of the Arabian Peninsula's recent history in general, and Yemeni history in particular, in a single anthology, and we must congratulate
Delocalization of Fieldwork and (Re)Construction of Place
The period I have spent exploring tribal societies in Yemen's northernmost Saʿdah area spans—with interruptions—around fifteen years, and I can hardly imagine a more profound set of changes converging on and in one place. For an anthropologist, these changes are of a political, spatial, technological, and methodological nature, all of which are deeply intertwined
Heroic History, Disruptive Genealogy
Genealogies are emic forms of social representation among many tribes in the Arab world. The formability of these genealogies for the purposes of politics and alliances is a common phenomenon. It becomes particularly obvious if one looks at the case of the ShÄkir tribe and its main divisions WÄilah and Dahm in the region of al-Jawf in northernmost Yemen. A comparison of their tribal genealogies and settlement areas in the tenth century CE, as des…
The Contemporary Structures and Historical Formation of the Khawlān and Jumā'ah Tribes in Sa'dah, Northwest Yemen
Khawlān and Jumā'ah are two out of eight tribes of the Khawlān b. 'Āmir confederation in Southwest Arabia, the territories of five of them being in Yemen and three in Saudi Arabia. Whereas the Yemeni tribes Munabbih, Sahār and Rāzih are well explored, little is known about the tribal structures of Jumā'ah and the homonymous tribe Khawlān. This article provides an overview of the present-day tribal structures of Khawlān and Jumā'ah, and traces the…
Sufyān's “Hybrid” War
The Ḥūthī conflict, which erupted in 2004, produced profound changes in the power structures of Yemen's northernmost regions. A central, yet little-studied feature of the Ḥūthī conflict is the progressive involvement of the local tribes. The study retraces how the tribal momentum of the conflict developed, using the empirical example of Sufyān, a Bakīl tribe which controls a strategically important territory in the northern ʿAmrān governorate. In…
Friedens-šayh und Kriegs-šayh. Der Übergang von Kriegsführerschaft bei den Banū Munebbih im Ḥūṯī-Konflikt in Nordwestjemen
Anthropos , Seite 49 - 70
Sufyān's “Hybrid” War
The Ḥūthī conflict, which erupted in 2004, produced profound changes in the power structures of Yemen's northernmost regions. A central, yet little-studied feature of the Ḥūthī conflict is the progressive involvement of the local tribes. The study retraces how the tribal momentum of the conflict developed, using the empirical example of Sufyān, a Bakīl tribe which controls a strategically important territory in the northern ʿAmrān governorate. In…
Delocalization of Fieldwork and (Re)Construction of Place
The period I have spent exploring tribal societies in Yemen's northernmost Saʿdah area spans—with interruptions—around fifteen years, and I can hardly imagine a more profound set of changes converging on and in one place. For an anthropologist, these changes are of a political, spatial, technological, and methodological nature, all of which are deeply intertwined
Friedens-šayh und Kriegs-šayh. Der Übergang von Kriegsführerschaft bei den Banū Munebbih im Ḥūṯī-Konflikt in Nordwestjemen
Anthropos , Seite 49 - 70
A tribe and its states
Across the Middle East, tribes and states have entered into different relationships. In many countries, tribes were confronted with massive attempts at interference by their respective states. The northern Yemeni Republic, in contrast, remained a weak state with little coercive instruments at its disposal. Its rule was rather based on indirect means: the politics of patronage, the politicization of development efforts, and the exploitation of tri…
Heroic History, Disruptive Genealogy
Genealogies are emic forms of social representation among many tribes in the Arab world. The formability of these genealogies for the purposes of politics and alliances is a common phenomenon. It becomes particularly obvious if one looks at the case of the ShÄkir tribe and its main divisions WÄilah and Dahm in the region of al-Jawf in northernmost Yemen. A comparison of their tribal genealogies and settlement areas in the tenth century CE, as des…
Friedens-šayh und Kriegs-šayh. Der Übergang von Kriegsführerschaft bei den Banū Munebbih im Ḥūṯī-Konflikt in Nordwestjemen
Anthropos , Seite 49 - 70
Sufyān's “Hybrid” War
The Ḥūthī conflict, which erupted in 2004, produced profound changes in the power structures of Yemen's northernmost regions. A central, yet little-studied feature of the Ḥūthī conflict is the progressive involvement of the local tribes. The study retraces how the tribal momentum of the conflict developed, using the empirical example of Sufyān, a Bakīl tribe which controls a strategically important territory in the northern ʿAmrān governorate. In…
The Contemporary Structures and Historical Formation of the Khawlān and Jumā'ah Tribes in Sa'dah, Northwest Yemen
Khawlān and Jumā'ah are two out of eight tribes of the Khawlān b. 'Āmir confederation in Southwest Arabia, the territories of five of them being in Yemen and three in Saudi Arabia. Whereas the Yemeni tribes Munabbih, Sahār and Rāzih are well explored, little is known about the tribal structures of Jumā'ah and the homonymous tribe Khawlān. This article provides an overview of the present-day tribal structures of Khawlān and Jumā'ah, and traces the…
Heroic History, Disruptive Genealogy
Genealogies are emic forms of social representation among many tribes in the Arab world. The formability of these genealogies for the purposes of politics and alliances is a common phenomenon. It becomes particularly obvious if one looks at the case of the ShÄkir tribe and its main divisions WÄilah and Dahm in the region of al-Jawf in northernmost Yemen. A comparison of their tribal genealogies and settlement areas in the tenth century CE, as des…
Sects and Politics
This chapter discusses the sectarian and political developments that unfolded in northernmost Yemen’s complex and competitive environment. It explores the spread of Salafism in Yemen’s Zaydi heartland, and the interplay between Sunni radicalization and Zaydi counter-radicalization, and the various sectarian, tribal, and political stages on which this radicalization took place. Since the turn of the millennium, the Zaydi revival has been significa…
The Saudi Influence
This chapter explores the various manifestations of Saudi influence in Yemen’s extreme north, particularly with regard to the role of Saudi patronage politics in protection of the controversial and vulnerable border between the two countries. The beginnings of Saudi patronage policy can be traced back to the Saudi-Yemeni War of 1934 and the Treaty of Ṭāʾif, which resolved it. Since 1934 tribal elites in the Yemeni borderlands played a vital role …
Into the Maze of Tribalism 2004–6
Chapter 5 reconstructs the course and the dynamics of the first three rounds of the Houthi conflict, also called the ‘Ṣaʿdah War’, from its eruption in June 2004 until the February 2006 ceasefire, which successfully brought the third Ṣaʿdah War to a halt and ushered into several months of detente. It shows how, in the course of the war, the sectarian and social-revolutionary thrust of Houthism began to fuse with existing open and latent conflicts…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter provides a detailed summary of the research results and reflects them against the background of the research question and the principles of Social Anthropology. It argues that the study of local arenas and ‘background’ themes of kinship, family, and tribe are linked to the hard surfaces of national and regional politics, and that the micro-and meso-sociological study of an anthropologist makes a substantial, if not fundamen…
Territories and Societies
This chapter provides the reader with basic knowledge of the research area and its inhabitants. It starts with a brief overview of its topographical features and its diverse natural landscapes, followed by a discussion of the concept of ‘tribe’. The chapter then outlines the basic features of northern Yemen’s tribal system. It introduces the various tribes of the research area-Khawlān b. ʿĀmir in the area’s west, and Wāʾilah, Dahm and Sufyān in t…
Elite Transformations
This chapter reconstructs the twisted evolution of the republican order in northernmost Yemen. It traces the research area’s profound socio-political and economic transformations since the beginning of the 1962 revolution and civil war that led to the overthrow of the Zaydi imamate, and describes the transition from the imamic kingdom into the republican order. Incomplete state building, underdevelopment, and the political and economic empowermen…
Faustian Bargains 2011–14
This chapter summarizes the period between the end of the sixth Ṣaʿdah War in February 2010 and the Houthis’ seizure of the capital, Sanaʿa, in September 2014. It discusses the Houthi seizure of power in the Ṣaʿdah governorate and the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘Change Revolution’ in Yemen in 2011, the GCC Initiative, the fall of President Salih and his rapprochement with the Houthis, and the National Dialogue Conference. The Houthis’ con…
Tribes and Politics in Yemen
'Tribes and Politics in Yemen' tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes
Arabia Incognita
It requires courage to depict the complexities and conundrums of the Arabian Peninsula's recent history in general, and Yemeni history in particular, in a single anthology, and we must congratulate
Delocalization of Fieldwork and (Re)Construction of Place
The period I have spent exploring tribal societies in Yemen's northernmost Saʿdah area spans—with interruptions—around fifteen years, and I can hardly imagine a more profound set of changes converging on and in one place. For an anthropologist, these changes are of a political, spatial, technological, and methodological nature, all of which are deeply intertwined
A tribe and its states
Across the Middle East, tribes and states have entered into different relationships. In many countries, tribes were confronted with massive attempts at interference by their respective states. The northern Yemeni Republic, in contrast, remained a weak state with little coercive instruments at its disposal. Its rule was rather based on indirect means: the politics of patronage, the politicization of development efforts, and the exploitation of tri…
Tribes in Modern Yemen
In Yemen, "tribe" is a historically rooted, emic concept of social representation. Rooted in remotest antiquity, over the last centuries the concept of tribe in Yemen has undergone transformations, but also featured aspects of continuity. Today, with the emergence of massive political change, the eruption of popular uprisings, armed conflicts, external military intervention and the associated weakness of the state, tribalism seems to be gaining i…
The Tale of a Feud
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the catastrophe of the Ḥūthī wars. Mujāhid’s life is a story of on…
Tribal encounters in the 'age of openness
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