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Traditional MENA Social Structure
Social Ecology of
Family Relations and Psychological Development
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Traditional MENA Social Org
• Tribal?
• Segmentary lineages?
• Social classes?
• Feudal?
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Traditional MENA Social Org
Symbiosis:
• Pastoralism
• Agriculture
• City-based crafts & merchants
+ rulers & religious scholars
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Tribal Society?• Self-governing groups
– Beyond reach of government– “Submit” to government & pay “tax”
• Nomadic pastoralists – “bedouin”– Herd camels, sheep, goats– Have “client” groups of farmers & craftsmen
• Transhumants
• Agriculturalists
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Bedouin camp -- Arabia
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Bedouin camp -- Iran
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Bedouin camp
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Bedouin camp
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Berber nomads, Morocco 1985
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Berber nomads, Morocco 1985
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Herding camp, Morocco, 1987
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Herding camp, Morocco, 1987
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Herding camp, Morocco 1986
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Herding camp, Morocco 1986
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Herding campMorocco
1987
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Tribes in Arab-Muslim Societies
• Struggle between tribes and states– Still in Pakistan & Afghanistan
• Contrast of urban & rural ways of life
– Ibn Khaldun: “civilization” vs. “solidarity”
• Raiding and feuding– Every man a warrior– Culture celebrating heroic deeds
• Tribesmen migrated into cities
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Tribal Social Organization• “segmentary lineage system”
– E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer, 1930s
• Lineage: group of families descended from common ancestor– Patrilineage: traced through male line– Matrilineage: traced through female line
we have bilateral kindred system
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Segmentary Lineage System
• Nuclear families nested within extended
• Extended families nested within lineages– genealogical links sometimes traceable
• Lineages nested within clans– genealogical links not traceable
• Clans nested within tribe or tribal “fractions”
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Segmentary Lineage System
“Clan”
Lineage
Extended family
Nuclear family
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Evans-Pritchard Thesis
Shifting balance of feuding and fusing segments
Order and stability without government
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Tamzrit: 75 households7 “lineages” 4 “clans”
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Tamzrit
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Tamzrit
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Arab / MENA Tribes:
Segmentary
but not really segmentary!
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Michael Meeker: Magritte on the Bedouins
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Segmentary Lineages
1. Mental map of social structure
2. Ideology -- often distorts real relationships
3. Map & ideology: sketches potential relationships people can build, and claims they can make on each other
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Segmentary Lineages
1. Model only approximated
2. Not all kinsmen included
3. Some / many non-kin included: patron-client networks
4. Ties deliberately built across kin groups
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Segmentary Lineages5. Model more likely actualized in absence
of gov’t control“If there’s a crisis, you’ll see
the lineages emerge.”
re-created by militia groups & in chaos: Lebanese, Algerian, Iraqi civil wars; Afghanistan, Libya?
can appear “tribal”
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Marriage & Family
in traditional MENA societies
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Marriages Arranged
• Many pre-industrial societies arrange marriages (Especially agricultural Eurasia: Europe, MENA, India, China)
• Marriage is relationship between families, not necessarily two young people in love
• Most lineage-based societies practice lineage / clan exogamy
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Marriage Rules: Exogamy
• Levi-Strauss: Men exchange & circulate women
Builds solidarity among lineages / clans
• Cross-cousin (MBD or FSD) preferred or required; parallel cousin prohibited & viewed as “incest”
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Kinship Diagrams
married
children
male female
siblings
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Exogamous M.B.D. Marriage
ego
M B
D
Cross-cousins
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Endogamous F.B.D. Marriage
ego
B ?
?
Parallel cousins
F ?
D
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Marriage Rules: MENA
• “Close marriage” -- endogamous
parallel cousin (FBD) preferred
but not majority of marriages
cross-cousin (MDB) O.K.
2nd or 3rd cousins O.K.
Patrilineal families / households also look matrilineal from the inside
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Patriliny and Matriliny
ego
B ?
?
Parallel cousins
F ?
D
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Arranged Marriages
• Traditionally: marriages arranged to create or cement relationships between families
• Girls (and boys) may be forced to marry strangers or people they dislike
• Men usually 5 – 10 years older
Girls often 14 to 17
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Effects of Endogamy
• Weaker cross-kin segment bonds?
• Strengthens within-kin segment bonds
greater fission & feuding?
• Creates matrilineal kinship network within patrilineal
strengthens hsld women’s solidarity?
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Traditional Marriage Strategies• Marry up in wealth & status
• Marry close – conserve property & status
– Endogamous parallel cousin FBD preferred
– Children may prefer these
• Alliance marriages: link distant families
• Result: officially patrilineal, but matrifocal
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Traditional Marriage Strategies• Father / patriarch may choose and has
final say
• Mother acts as family agent & scouts behind scenes– May consult with son or daughter– Kids may prefer cousins or kin they know
• High status & wealthy families follow rules more closely
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What of romantic love?
• Recognized & celebrated in tragic literature and folktales
• Seen as fickle, undependable
• Different from love that grows from years of marriage
– “heart” love vs. “liver” love
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Divorce• Frequent in many areas
– Failure to have child within 2 years– Mistreatment by husband or in-laws
• Women “leave” inheritance with brothers, in case she’s divorced
• 2nd marriages less formal; woman may have greater say
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Family / Kin group:“Patronymic Association”
• “People of…”
• “Descendents of…”
• “House of…”
big extended family
little lineage
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Patronymic Association
• Basic unit of traditional social organization– pastoralist camping group
– adjoining households in village
– neighborhood or alley in urban quarter
• Lineage-like, but…– Does NOT include many families & members
– DOES include “clients” treated as if family
– Fuzzy, fluid, & shifting boundaries
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Patronymic Association• Kin terms, etiquettes, and feelings
extended to non-kin patrons and clients
• Family-kin relationships not fixed by genealogy, but negotiated – as if patron-client relationships
• Key to traditional MENA social org:
networks of face-to-face kin-based and kin-like patron-client relationships
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Patron-Client Relations
• Reciprocity system:– gift & counter-gift – shifting imbalance
maintains mutual indebtedness
• Family / kin idiom & etiquettes:– Patron – like father or uncle -- dominates,
protects & may promote– Client – like son or nephew – subordinates
self, receives protection, maybe promotion
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Patron-Client Relations
• Exchanges of gifts & favors:
Traditional reciprocity system?
or:
Corruption?
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MENA Social Organization• Segmentary – but not lineages (Magritte’s
pipe !)
• Family-based – but not just nuclear (or even extended) families: patronymic association
• Strategy -- build strong entourage of kin & clients
• Family gender & age hierarchy extended to patron-client relations
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Traditional MENA Social Org
Fuad Khuri:
• “tents” rather than “pyramids”
• leader / entourage segments
• competition to be “first among equals”
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“Modern” Social Organization
• Bureaucracies– Schools, companies, gov’t ministries
• Social classes– Elite, “populaire” & slum-dweller lifestyles
• State control– Monarchies, military dictatorships, one-party
“presidencies”– Political parties & movements– Mukhabbarat -- secret police
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“Modern” Social Organization
• Nuclear Families
• Fewer children
• Gender equality
• Individual choice of…– Spouse– Vocation– Lifestyle– Religiosity
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“Modern” social organization
“Modernity”
Underdevelopment
( H. Sharabi:
“neo-patriarchy” )
Tradition
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“Modern” Social Organization
Modernization
&
Underdevelopment
+
Cultural Dualities
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Landmarks in Marrakech
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Ramadanshoppingin Alexandria
at theMarilyn Monroeboutique