Nomads of the Nomads: The Al Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter

This series of brief ethnographies, intended primarily for supplementary use in undergraduate courses, focuses on the ways in which human life is shaped by factors in the external environment for those who must wrest a livelihood from it and face the vicissitudes it contains. Each book concentrates on particular settings and circumstances of human life, describing the interaction between people and their social and physical environment.