Chapter 1. The Office and Functions of the Village Mukhtar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Figures, and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Contributors xv
6. Book I: The Effects of Regime Policies on Social Cohesion and Fragmentation
7. Introduction 3
8. Chapter 1. The Two Faces of Ottoman Rule: Palestinian Society before World War I 9
9. Chapter 2. Direct Contact with the West: The British Mandate 19
10. Chapter 3. Dispersal and Annexation: Jordanian Rule 33
11. Chapter 4. Israeli Military Rule: Continuity at the Macro-Level 45
12. Chapter 5. The Impact on Stratification of Employment in Israel: Change at the Micro-Level 54
13. Conclusion 78
14. Appendix. Field Research in an Occupied Territory 88
15. Book II: Studies in Continuity and Change under Four Regimes
16. Introduction 99
17. Part One: The Palestinian Village
18. Chapter 1. The Office and Functions of the Village Mukhtar 103
19. Chapter 2. Administrative Policy in Rural Palestine: The Impact of British Norms on Arab Community Life, 1920–1948 124
20. Chapter 3. West Bank Refugees—Between Camp and Society 146
21. Part Two: Palestinian Urban Elites
22. Chapter 4. Conflictual Pressures and Cooperative Interests: Observations on West Bank-Amman Political Relations, 1949–1967 169
23. Chapter 5. Politics and Social Change in the West Bank Since 1967 185
24. Chapter 6. The Dialectics of Palestinian Politics 212
25. Part Three: Modes of Interaction between Elites and Masses
26. Chapter 7. Legal Protection and Circumvention of Rights for Cultivators in Mandatory Palestine 233
27. Chapter 8. Peasants into Workmen: Internal Labor Migration and the Arab Village Community under the Mandate 261
28. Index 287