Blood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation and Outcasting

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Sussex Academic Press, 1997 - 228 pages
An account of traditional methods of justice in Bedouin and rural Arab society in Israel. Case histories highlight the role of the mebasha', a Bedouin legal judge who determines whether an individual speaks the truth by means of an ordeal by fire. This second edition contains a 16-page section on tashmis (outcasting) documents and photographs of people involved in the case histories, some taken during their trials. New material takes into account recent political upheavals. Of interest to historians, anthropologists, and scholars of Middle Eastern cultures. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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About the author (1997)

Joseph Ginat, formerly Chairman of the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, and a former Director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, is currently working with the Egyptian scholar Maha El-Rashidi on methods of conflict resolution.

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TitleBlood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation and Outcasting
AuthorJ. Ginat
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherSussex Academic Press, 1997
ISBN1898723184, 9781898723189
Length228 pages
  
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