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The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-Human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-2 Appendices

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-Human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-2 Appendices

Young, William C.

Hardcover

General Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004697470
ISBN13: 9789004697478
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 24 2024
Pages: 878
Weight: 3.08
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations - totemism, emulation of predatory animals, ancestor eponymy, nicknaming, and Bedouin proximity to nature. It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include attached elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting attached groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young's argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship.

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