Arab Settlements

How can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? Arab Settlements aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean throug...

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Main Author: Pini, Nicolò
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2019.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Preface -- Part 1: Methodology and Theory -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Anthropological background and terminology -- 2.1: Nomadism and pastoral societies -- 2.2: Tribalism and segmented societies -- 2.3: "Arabs": the challenge of distinguishing between external labels and self-definitions -- Chapter 3: Typology -- 3.1: The "Settlement" level -- 3.2: The "Quarter" level -- 3.3: The "Block" level -- 3.4: The "house" level -- Part 2: Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 4: The case studies 
505 8 |a 4.1: The southern Hauran (Jordan) -- 4.1.1: Umm el-Jimal -- 4.1.2: Umm es-Surab -- 4.2: The Central Hauran (Syria) -- 4.2.1: Sharah -- 4.2.2: Mseikeh -- 4.3: The Negev -- 4.3.1: Shivta (Sobata/Soubaita) -- 4.3.2: Mamshit (Mampsis/Kurnub) -- Chapter 5: Regionalism and Transregional patterns -- Chapter 6: The "test" case-studies -- The Central Jordanian Plateau -- 6.1: Tall Hisban -- 6.2: Umm er-Rasas -- Part 3: Archaeological data in the bigger picture -- Chapter 7: The regional historical context -- 7.1: The Desert and the Sown -- 7.2: Brothers in arms -- 7.3: Defended by the saints 
505 8 |a 7.4: A "Kaleidoscope of identities" -- 7.5: The "ruralisation" of the spatial model of the urban space -- Chapter 8: Arab settlements or settlements of the "Arabs"? -- References -- Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Plates 
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776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Pini, Nicolò  |t Arab Settlements: Tribal Structures and Spatial Organizations in the Middle East Between Hellenistic and Early Islamic Periods  |d Oxford : Archaeopress,c2019 
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