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Description of  The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-Human Names of Arab Kinship Groups (Handbook of Oriental Studies: The Near and Middle East, 178)

9004690360 pdf In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names? Youngs book questions old explanations and suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use such names to obscure internal cleavages.