Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- RACE, RELIGION AND NATION-STATE IN THE NEAR EAST / Hourani, A.H. -- SOCIAL GROUPS: ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS AND NATIONAL / Berger, ¿. -- ISLAM AND VILLAGE CULTURE / Lutfiyya, A. -- THE SOCIAL PATTERN / Longrigg, S. ¿. / Stoakes, F. -- THE LEVANT / Morgan, ¿. W. -- THE CIRCASSIANS / Weightman, G. ¿. -- GROUP BEHAVIOR IN THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF LEBANON / Tannous, ¿. ¿. -- THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMUNITY / Ammar, ¿. -- LIVING CONDITIONS OF NOMADIC, SEMI-NOMADIC AND SETTLED TRIBAL GROUPS / Awad, ¿. -- STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN MIDDLE EAST SOCIETY / Stirling, P. -- FERTILITY DIFFERENCES IN A MODERNIZING COUNTRY / Yaukey, D. -- SOME ASPECTS OF FERTILITY IN EGYPT / El-Badry, ¿. ¿. -- Section II: CULTURE -- THE MIDDLE EAST AS A CULTURE AREA / Patai, R. -- DATE CULTURE IN THE OASIS OF AL-HASA / Vidal, F. S. -- A DAY IN A PEASANT HOUSEHOLD / Sweet, L. ¿. -- RAMADÂN / Grunebaum, Ch. ¿. von -- Section III: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURAL CHANGE -- THE DYNAMICS OF WESTERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST / Patai, R. -- ISLAM AND THE WEST / Morrison, S. A. -- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST / Issawi, Ch. -- POLITICAL DISUNITY OF THE ARAB WORLD / Issawi, Ch. -- SOCIAL CHANGE IN AN ARAB VILLAGE / Tannous, A. I. -- EMIGRATION, A FORCE OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN AN ARAB VILLAGE / Tannous, A. I. -- CONSERVATISM AND CHANGE IN A LEBANESE VILLAGE / Gulick, J. -- THE IRAQI VILLAGE, PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE / Marr, P. A. -- TWO STREAMS INTO ONE / Gulick, J. -- THE CONFLICT OF EAST AND WEST IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN LITERARY TASTE / Cachia, P. J. ¿. -- LABOUR PROBLEMS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE INDUSTRY / Kinch, ¿. ¿. -- THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF AN EGYPTIAN FACTORY / Carson, W. ¿. -- SOCIAL BASIS OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS / Berger, ¿. -- PROBLEMS OF ARAB POLITICAL BEHAVIOR / Salem, ¿. -- ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF THE CHARACTER OF AFRO-ASIAN NATIONALISM / Mark, ¿. -- THE ARMY / Halpern, ¿. -- AN ARAB TRANSPLANTED / Sfeir, G. -- Section IV: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION -- DILEMMA OF THE ELITE IN ARAB SOCIETY / Tannous, A. I. -- ¿ STUDY OF ARAB REFUGEE ATTITUDES / Bruhns, F. C. -- SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION IN SELECTED LEBANESE VILLAGES / Armstrong, L. / Hirabayashi, G. K. -- Section V: THE FAMILY -- THE ISLAMIC LAW OF MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE / Anderson, J. N. D. -- THE FAMILY / Lutfiyya, ¿. ¿. -- THE WORLD OF KIN / Fuller, ¿. ¿. -- COUSIN-RIGHT IN MIDDLE EASTERN MARRIAGE / Patai, R. -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE MOSLEM FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES / el-Daghestani, ¿. -- THE CHANGING MOSLEM FAMILY OF THE MIDDLE EAST / Beck, D. F. -- FAMILISM AND SOCIALIZATION / Patai, R. -- PATTERNS IN CHILD-REARING PRACTICES / Prothro, ¿. ¿. -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN / El Hamamsy, L. S. -- AN ARAB-EGYPTIAN FAMILY / Lichtenstadter, I. -- Section VI: URBAN LIFE -- THE CITY / Bear, G. -- FERTILE CRESCENT CITIES / Churchill, Ch. W. -- MIGRANT ADJUSTMENT TO CITY LIFE: THE EGYPTIAN CASE / Abu-Lughod, J. -- Section VII: THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION -- COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE IN AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE / Adams, J. -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ARABS / Shouby, ¿. -- ARAB-AMERICAN DIFFERENCES IN THE JUDGMENT OF WRITTEN MESSAGES / Prothro, ¿. ¿. -- PATTERNS OF GESTURE AMONG THE LEVANTINE ARABS / Brewer, W. D. -- INDEX
