Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Antoun, Richard

Titel

Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation

Ist Teil von

• American Anthropologist, 2007, Vol.109 (1), p.205-206

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: American Anthropological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The former "set off tremors along the ramifying fault lines of the political system" among the "competing ethnic groups (sada, tribe, and servant group)" (p. 171) at the regional level, the national level Khawlan district vs. By 2001, when he returned to Yemen after a 20-year absence, Caton realized that a successful politician from the rural area had to spend a considerable amount of time in the capital, lobbying influentials, to provide the amenities necessary for the home district (water, electricity, roads), and that this would necessarily jeopardize the face-to-face interpersonal relations that had always characterized tribal life.