Let Shepherding Endure

Gideon M. Kressel is Professor of Anthropology and Oriental Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of several books, including Ascendancy Through Aggression: The Anatomy of a Blood Feud Among Urbanized Bedouins and coeditor (with A. Paul Hare) of Israel as Center Stage: A Setting for Social and Religious Enactments.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Nomadic Pastoralists, Agriculturalists, and the State: Self-Sufficiency and Dependence in the Middle East 2. Changes in Land Usage by the Negev Bedouin since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Intratribal Perspective 3. Applied Anthropology, Cultural Survival, and New Directions for the Future of the Negev Bedouin 4. Governmental Policies toward the Bedouin 5. Enhancing the Attractiveness of Shepherding 6. Are Shepherds' Villages Viable? 7. Designing a Shepherd's Village 8. Teach the Children of Judah Sheep!: The Crisis of Small Ruminants Breeding 9. Toward a Better Plan of Action Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

Kressel's book contributes to our understanding of the difficulties experienced by romanticized groups … under the conditions of market economies." — Journal of Rural Cooperation"This is a significant contribution, not just isolated to managing the 'Bedouin problem,' but also as a kind of model for applied research in similar fields." — Trond Thuen, author of Quest for Equity: Norway and the Saami Challenge"This account is a mature work of a scholar (once a child shepherd) who has devoted decades to research among the Bedouin. Let Shepherding Endure is both intellectually sound and substantively provocative." — Philip Carl Salzman, author of Black Tents of Baluchistan