A Nomadic State of Mind: Mental Maps of Bedouins in the Negev and Sinai During the Time of the Ottomans, the British Mandate, and the State of Israel

Emir Galilee

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2019, vol. 6, issue 3-4, 370-382

Abstract: Abstract This article is based on over a decade of field research among Bedouin tribes of the Negev as well as historical and geographical research. Its central argument is that the main social, cultural, and geographical processes within the Negev Bedouin groups are impacted by three major forces: nomadism and the social structure; formal Islam; and the rise of the modern state. This argument is illustrated by the geographical concept of “mental maps†, and its various manifestations in Bedouin society. The article focuses on the historical developments of the twentieth century, which took place alongside the rise of the Zionist movement and the establishment of the State of Israel.

Keywords: Bedouin; Negev; mental maps; place names; Israel; Ottoman Empire; British mandate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798919872837

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