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The Politics of Tribal Perseverance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Charles Schmitz
Charles Schmitz*
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Department of Geography, Towson University, TowsonMD, USA
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: cschmitz@towson.edu
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There is a short answer to the question that has been posed to the participants in this roundtable. Tribes have a great deal of currency in modern Yemen because they provide an effective means to govern and protect local society. Tribalism is a deep pool of widely accepted customary practices in Yemen that people draw upon to provide security, manage agricultural resources (Yemen's tribespeople are mostly settled agriculturalists), and resolve local disputes.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 497 - 501
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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