Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, Salzman, Carl 9781591025870 New<-

Culture and Conflict in the Middle EastAuthor(s): Philip Carl Salzman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Prometheus Books, United States\nImprint: Humanity Books\nISBN-13: 9781591025870, 978-1591025870\nSynopsis\nIn an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents an incisive analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes a long way toward explaining the gulf between Western and Middle Eastern cultural [url] focuses on two basic principles of tribal organization that have become central principles of Middle Eastern lifebalanced opposition (each group of whatever size and scope is opposed by a group of equal size and scope) and affiliation solidarity (always support those closer against those more di.