Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 3
3. Contents 7
4. Maps and Tables 11
5. I. The Middle East as a Culture Continent 13
6. II. Some Problems of the Middle Eastern Culture Continent 39
7. III. The Desert and the Sown 73
8. IV. The Family 84
9. V. The Position of Women and Sex Mores 115
10. VI. Cousin Marriage 135
11. VII. Dual Organization 177
12. VIII. Noble and Vassal Tribes 251
13. IX. The Village and Its Culture 267
14. X. The Middle Eastern Town 303
15. XI. Religion in Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Western Culture 322
16. XII. Social and Cultural Determinants of Middle Eastern Nationalism 345
17. XIII. The Dynamics of Westernization 364
18. XIV. Resistance to Westernization 386
19. XV. The Endogamous Unilineal Descent Group 407
20. XVI. Women in a Man's World 437
21. Statistical Appendix 481
22. Notes 497
23. Index 533