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1999 "On the nature of power in the works of
Orientalist scholars and its contribution to a history of Bedouin society and nomad-sedentary relations at the Bilâd ash-Shâm" in Chatelard, G. and Tarawneh, M. (eds) Antonin Jaussen. Sciences sociale occidentales et patrimoine
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1998 "Who are these nomads? What do they do? Continuous Change or
Changing Continuities?" in Jinat, Joseph and Khazanov, Anatoly M., eds,
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1993 "Sécheresse et stratégies de reconversion économique chez le bédouins de
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Eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia for several years while gathering data for the book.
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1990 "Desert devices: the pastoral system of the Rwala Bedu" in J.G. Galaty and D.L. Johnson, eds.
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People, land and water in the Arab Middle East: environments and landscapes in the Bilâd ash-Shâm
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The Places Where Men Pray
Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries
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Nomadic Societies in the Middle East And North Africa: Entering the 21st Century
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Early Islamic Architecture of the Desert: A Bedouin Station in Eastern Jordan
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1987 "The Function of Peripatetics in Rwala Bedouin Society" in Rao, A. (ed)
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The world of pastoralism: herding systems in comparative perspective
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and his first wife Karen Elizabeth Harris. He was schooled at
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1990 "Modern ar-Risha: A Permanent Address" in Helms, Svend,
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1986 "The Concept of Territory among the Rwala Bedouin"
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1982 "The Logic of the Rwala Response to Change" in
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