Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.Dresch, Paul is the author of 'Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen', published 1990 under ISBN 9780198273318 and ISBN 0198273312.